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There were badgers here, I've been told, long before that same city ever came to be.

我听说，在同样的那座城市出现很久以前，这里就有獾子了。

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The state is named after an American Indian tribe a recognition of the groups that came long before the Pilgrims.

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Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.

早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。

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Behaviorism is a school of thought that was there long before Skinner, championed by psychologists like John Watson, for instance.

行为主义学派,远在斯金纳提出他的理论之前就已经存在，受到了众多心理学家的拥护,比如约翰·华生。

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Long before you can see the birds along the river, you can hear them.

BBC: Nebraska��s awe-inspiring crane migration

In 1954, long before there was a Lipper or a Morningstar, the magazine published its first performance ranking.

FORBES: The Prevalence of Fads

Waiting alongside the train tracks as the perennially late locomotive rumbles into hearing distance long before it arrives.

BBC: Getting to the heart and soul of hilly Sri Lanka