As a civilization you have a long way before you all finally reach the higher dimensions, that were your levels of existence a long time ago.

作为一个文明在你们所有人都最终抵达更高的维度之前，你们还有很长一段路要走，这就是很久之前你们存在的水平。

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I'd bought the cheese three days ago in Mexico City before the long cheap bus trip across Zacatecas and Durango and Chihuahua two thousand long miles to the border at El Paso.

干酪是三天前我在墨西哥城购买的，之前我坐长途公车作便宜的旅行，穿越萨卡特卡市，斯杜兰戈市及奇瓦瓦市直到边境的厄尔巴索市，远远两千里。

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Though the theory is being put on the spotlight not long ago, the relative theoretical rudiment can trace back to a quite long before.

该理论虽然最近才被国际贸易学界关注，但是与其相似的理论形成已久。

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This was -- this is about rules of the road for banks that engage, as you heard Austan describe, in activities that, before so long ago, weren't traditionally the purview of banks.

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Joe Lieberman was there a long time ago before we started going to the White House occasionally.

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