They had escaped to America shortly before war broke out in 1939.

1939年战争爆发前不久他们逃到了美国。

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She finished third in her semi-final swim in August. Shortly after the semi-finals, she became a trending topic on Chinese social media and she became famous quickly around the world.

在8月的半决赛中，她获得了第三名。半决赛结束后不久，她成为了中国社交媒体上的热门话题，并迅速走红全球。

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He had engaged in genealogical research on his family shortly before the War.

就在战争爆发前不久，他从事过对自己家族的家谱研究。

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Then,shortly after sunset on April twelfth, Navy special operations forces feared that Captain Phillips' life was in immediate danger.

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So the work was probably concluded shortly after that date: so in exile or towards the end of the exilic period.

因此这部作品很可能就是在那个日期不久后结束的：,也就是在流放期间或流放即将结束时。

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But we're going to see, very shortly, that in fact those collections could be arbitrary.

是一个整数的序列，我们可以认为它是按照数字依次来的。

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Dr. Powrie, a Canadian whom Dr. Makadon met that same year at a medical conference, moved in shortly later.

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Habana though was in shortly before half-time, cutting in from the left wing on a mazy run to outwit the Samoan defence.

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Acquisition offers came in shortly after, and Postmedia Network bought the company.

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