What happened before that?

在这之前发生了什么？

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You do not understand the story, the background, what happened before, and what happens next.

你不了解这个故事、其背景、之前发生了什么以及接下来会发生什么。

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Regardless of what happened before, the person bringing up the past is feeling something similar now.

不论过去发生了什么，提起它的人是在目前受到了与过去相似的感觉。

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"What's new is that we can actually do something to help the victims, and rather than what happened before was they may end up being prosecuted and criminalized themselves, that now it's recognized that they're victims."

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And what happened before it.

以及在这之前发生的事情。

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Well there actually was a stock market in Russia before 1918 and in China before 1949, so what happened to investors?

实际上,俄罗斯在1918年前,中国在1949年前设有股票市场,那么投资者会得到怎样的回报呢

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One has to go a little farther back to see what happened before they came to us.

NPR: Nobel Laureate Explains Kenya's Battle for Peace

For them to keep quiet, especially after what happened before last week's England international, was a good thing.

BBC: Micah Richards column

But the bank wants to know what happened before the 2008 crash.

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