As Papademetriou told me, what came before often happens again.

正如帕帕德美特里欧所告诉我们那样，以前发生过的事情往往会再次重演。

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For what is creation, after all, but the destruction of much of what came before?

毕竟，除了破坏就有的事务，创造还能意味着什么呢？

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In the absence of hard evidence of what came before, there is plenty of scope for disagreement.

而对于更早期的问题，由于缺乏确切证据，可谓是众说纷纭。

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It is the site of what used to be his son's home before Israeli forces came here early one morning this week and demolished it.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

But he started--the pigeons started to think, effectively, what was it I did just before that last piece of corn came?

那些鸽子会想,上一粒谷粒掉过来之前我做了什么

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I'm generally pretty impressed by what the, what my classmates have gotten up to before they came to school here.

我的同学在入学之前已经完成的事情让我印象深刻。

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He says that Beethoven's final three sonatas are very specific creations, each different from one another and from what came before.

NPR: Andras Schiff's Beethoven Odyssey in L.A.

That is what makes this bond-buying plan different from what came before.

BBC: Eurozone crisis: From deutschmark to lira?

"We feel strongly that this is what came before the planets, " said Carol Raymond, Dawn's deputy principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

WSJ: Asteroid Vesta Gets a Close Study