Because he was Japanese in a previous life.

因为他前世是个日本人。

youdao

One thing I learned from my previous life is this: what gets measured gets done.

我从以前的生活中学到的一件事是：得到衡量的得到执行。

youdao

The days were all so quiet and relaxing, after the hardships and poverty of his previous life.

经受了以前那些备尝穷困与艰辛的日子后，现在的日子是如此平静、愉快。

youdao

But as it swelled, the watching world was aware that the vision of peace, music and community it represented was a gentle protest against the previous generation's way of life.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

Well, I think that once again, they've made the same mistake the previous case did, that they assigned a dollar value to human life, and once again, they failed to take account things like suffering and emotional losses by the families.

我觉得他们犯了与前面案例,相同的错误，量化了生命的价值，但同样的，他们没有考虑受害者家人承受的,痛苦和精神损失。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

When Plato asked himself how could that be, the answer he gave is, well, it's got to be we were previous acquainted with the forms before our life in this world, and that shows that the soul must be something that existed prior to the creation of the body.

柏拉图问自己这究竟是怎么回事，他给出的答案是,我们有生命以前就,已经熟悉了这些形式，这就表明灵魂是在,身体存在之前就已经具有的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I've been on the panel on "This Week" with him many times in my previous life.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The actual loss seems to be some 50% of previous life: really quite serious a number when dealing with laptops.

FORBES: Mountain Lion Kills Battery Life Like Lion Did

In my previous life as an airline pilot, preparing passengers for the disaster we hoped would never happen was routine.

FORBES: Investing For A Peak-Oil Future