They had ships long before us, thousands of years.

中国比我们早几千年就有船只。

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"She tells me," he said, "that the pirates sighted us before the darkness came, and got Long Tom out."

“她告诉我，”他说，“天黑前海盗们就发现了我们，把大炮架起来了。”

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We're at Thwaite Station and we've got a long drive before us.

我们已经到了瑟威特车站，待会还有一段很长的车程要赶。

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I only want to suggest to you with this long preamble that much of the work that lies before us is actually in the past and we have already accomplished it.

我之前讲这么多，只是想让大家知道,这么多的疑问我们之前已经遇到了,并且已经解决了。

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The earth was here long before us, and will be here long after us.

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The real question is how did Twitter, with 7x fewer users than Facebook, so easily double Facebookon that important metric this year when both management teams equally saw the way the world was moving long before us mortal folks realized what was going on?

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At the same time, it must be added that gay culture, since a time long before any of us were born, had been, even for its foremost creators and champions, a concept fraught with ambiguity and paradox.

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