This was back before E-mail was the default mode of communication, and I vividly remember a phone conversation I had with one of my statistically-savvy collaborators about what the data showed.

在电子邮件是交流的默认方式之前，这是十分落后的，我清晰的记得我与其中一个精通统计的合作者的这么一个电话，谈的是关于数据都显示了什么。

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This was back before email was the default mode of communication, and I vividly remember a phone conversation I had with one of my statistically-savvy collaborators about what the data showed.

在电子邮件是交流的默认方式之前，这是十分落后的，我清晰的记得我与其中一个精通统计的合作者的这么一个电话，谈的是关于数据都显示了什么。

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Margaret could have used the side doors, except those were kept locked because the manager didn't want the hired help to sneak out, either. This was back before excessive fire and safety regulations.

那会儿还没有繁杂的消防安全条例，经理为了防止员工翘班把边门都锁了，要不然，玛格·丽特完全可以从那儿离开。

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This is not the case--well, before the British gave Hong Kong back, Hong Kong was a crown colony, it was British territory.

这和Apoikia不是一回事,例如英国归还香港之前,香港是英国的殖民地,是它的领土

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He spent all last year at Triple-A and was headed back this season before Nathan Eovaldi and Henderson Alvarez were injured.

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To offer one analogy, just imagine what transportation was like in this country back in the 1920s and 1930s before the Interstate Highway System was built.

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But it was not long before he was back in Croatia, this time taking on the role of director of youth development.

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