They start picking up the rules from the day they are born, perhaps even before, by hearing it all around them.

人类一开始是通过周围所听到的来整理收集其所处时代，或者甚至是更早时代的相关规则条例。

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Over time, and perhaps even before, a pale was not just a stick, but a fence, and then it was the area within the fence.

一些年后，甚至在那之前，pale不仅仅是一根棍子，还有篱笆的意思，后来便指代篱笆之内的区域。

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But if doctors can identify patients sooner, perhaps even before their symptoms start, they may be able to save neurons and stop the gradual loss of mental functions.

但如果医生可以尽早辨认患者的状况，甚至在其症状出现前有所识别，那么就能拯救患者神经细胞，阻止患者大脑功能的衰退。

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This is why he's continually placing the imaginative origin of the poem back to the very dawn of time, perhaps even back before if you can imagine such a time -- before the very dawn of time.

这就是为什么弥尔顿总是试图把想象中的这首诗的起源,推至时间开始的时候，甚至更早,-如果你们能想象这样一个时间--在时间开始之前。

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He hopes to return control to the city, perhaps even before the takeover expires in 2012.

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The Supreme Court is about to rule on that case -- and, some say, overturn Sotomayor's thinking -- perhaps even before her confirmation hearings.

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She suggested that children born through donated sperm might be told in simple terms as soon as they could broadly understand the concept, perhaps even before school-age.

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