The cocktail is a concoction of liquor, the most common before-dinner drink.

一种配制酒，是餐前最普通饮用的酒。

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"What we're seeing was not very common before 2008," said Fu Zhihua, a research fellow at the research Institute for Fiscal Science.

“我们现在看到的在2008年前是不常见的，”财政科学研究所研究员付志华说。

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Strong public opposition to their renewal was common even before 1999, but it was based on safety considerations, not on environmental ones.

即使在1999年之前，他们的更新也时常引起公众强烈的反对，但这是基于安全考虑，而不是基于环境考虑。

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He was interested in British Common Law, because his family had come to America from England many years before.

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The trial of Socrates takes place in the year 399 and all of these refer to before the common era 399.

苏格拉底的审判,发生在公元前399年，这些,全都指向共同年代─399年之前。

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I said it before this is a commen sense and I want to illustrate the common sense nature of this in a few ways.

我之前说过,这是个普遍观点,现在我要从几个方面,来说明这个普遍观点

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Although rare now, hand-crafted Bibles were common before the invention of the printing press.

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This kind of channel stuffing is especially common before a new drug is launched.

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Sustained periods of real 4% growth were common before the final link between the dollar and gold was severed in 1971.

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