He was 52 and had retired to Stratford three years before.

他享年52岁，在逝世三年前他退休到斯特拉特福德。

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Bruce Stephen honored my maternal grandfather, Benjamin Samuel Abeshouse, who had died three years before my birth.

布鲁斯·斯蒂芬这个名字就是为了纪念我的外祖父，本杰明·塞缪尔· 阿巴斯豪斯， 他在我出生的三年前就过世了。

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Her poems on various subjects, religious and moral, were printed in Boston in 1773, three years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

1773年，在《独立宣言》签署的三年前，她关于宗教和道德等各种主题的诗歌在波士顿出版。

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Schirra had been the pilot on an almost perfect Mercury flight three years before.

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In fact, you could be sitting three years from now waiting before commencement and you can get that grade adjusted.

实际上，你可以从现在到知道毕业典礼前,一直坐等三年,你可以更正成绩。

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just before it dies. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates talked of this two thousand three hundred years ago.

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New plants typically take as long as three years before they produce their beans.

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And that was three years before he passed welfare reform -- and won a second term.

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Shalikashvili was born in Warsaw, Poland, in June 1936, just three years before the Nazis invaded.

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