在以前技术剧烈变革的时期，企业家们想方设法将劳动力和机器结合起来，才使得转型顺利进行。

In previous eras of drastic technological change, entrepreneurs smoothed the transition by dreaming up ways to combine labor and machines.

youdao

细分市场最简单的方法之一是放大性别差异，或者在以前不存在性别差异的地方创造性别差异。

One of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences or invent them where they did not previously exist.

youdao

仅一次反抗或不服从的行为在以前就往往足以决定一个女人的命运。

A single act of rebellion or disobedience was often enough to seal a woman's fate.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I had not really had a conversation with a person who was out as lesbian or gay before I was in college.

在上大学以前,我从未真正地和一个,出柜的同性恋谈过话。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Okay. They used to be in the Sunset which was near to school, which I loved.

那家以前在日落区，挨着学校，我很喜欢。

有益健康的美食店 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For instance in the past, we had that silly little program for computing the average of some quizzes and it was actually a pretty bad implementation because I had essentially hard coded in the number of quizzes.

比如在以前，我们做了一个,计算平均数的程序,这是一个相当挫的实现,因为我硬编码了测试的数字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选