Their friendship dates from before the war.

他们的友谊始于战前。

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"Before the war, no one knew about the cultures from outside, but now so many people know about Western culture," says Kawakeb Salah Hamed, a sociology professor at Baghdad University.

“战争之前，大家对来自外界的文化一无所知，不过现在有那么多人喜欢西方文化”，巴格达大学社会学教授卡瓦科布·萨拉汉·哈米德认为。

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Before Pearl Harbour, scientific knowledge useful in war was pooled between the United States and Britain and many priceless helps to our victories have come from the arrangement.

在珍珠港事件前，对战争有用的科学知识在英美之间汇聚起来，而许多对我们的胜利的无价帮助也来源于这一安排。

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Moving pictures from before World War Two showed a man named Buck Rogers landing on the planet Mars.

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Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

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But others now say this period after the Civil War was a necessary step in creating a different kind of South from the one which had existed before.

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That's the word we had from him before the war started.

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His foreign policy is from the 1980s, before the Cold War was over.

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Many had gone underground since the U.S. invasion, prevented by violence from occupying the galleries that existed before the war.

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