他是一分钟之前从公园走过的。

He walked across the park a minute ago.

youdao

约翰在哪里？约翰一分钟之前还在这儿。

Where is John? John was here a minute ago.

youdao

不，我们已经在一分钟之前左转，因此我们不再向南走了。

No, we turned left about a minute ago, so we're no longer pointing south.

youdao

You had a semiotic system, whereas before, yesterday, or a minute ago you had no language at all.

一个符号系统诞生了，然而之前，昨天，或者就是一分钟前，根本就没有语言。

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