Another way to look at it would be to say I took a prior text and erased most it, or that the only parts "left" are the nodal points around the sentences.

我要说的另外一个考察方式就是，我拿来原文本，涂去一大半，惟一剩下的部分就是句子与句子之间的连结点。

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Prior to publication, the editorial office had consulted a German Sinologist for a translation of the relevant text.

在出版前，我们编辑部就相关文本的翻译咨询过一位德国的汉学家。

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In prior versions, Full Text Search was an external service that ran alongside the rest of SQL Server.

之前版本的全文检索是一个外部服务，和SQL Server并排运行的服务。

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