早在两国交战之前就有了根深蒂固的种族偏见。

There was a deep-rooted racial prejudice long before the two countries went to war.

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艾森豪威尔行政大楼的历史早在奠基之前就开始了。

The history of the EEOB began long before its foundations were laid.

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早在冰箱出现之前，人们就需要冰来保存和提供食物了。

Well before the arrival of freezers, there was a demand for ice for preserving and catering food.

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Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.

早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。

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This is why he's continually placing the imaginative origin of the poem back to the very dawn of time, perhaps even back before if you can imagine such a time -- before the very dawn of time.

这就是为什么弥尔顿总是试图把想象中的这首诗的起源,推至时间开始的时候，甚至更早,-如果你们能想象这样一个时间--在时间开始之前。

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Just has indicates the New deal, the new deal, most of the key people in new deal were for big government intervention, long before there was a stock market crash.

就像新政所证明的一样，大多数起草新政的关键人物,都赞成大规模政府监管，早在股票市场崩盘之前他们就这样想了。

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