简以前不是一个自信的女孩，因为她很胖，别人经常嘲笑她。

Jane was not a confident girl before, because she was fat and others often laughed at her.

youdao

我以前不是做软件开发的。

I wasn't always a software developer.

youdao

这是的死命题，最近偶然,在论文读到,但以前不是。

I guess then that this is a dead issue, that's what I've been picking up from some of the papers I've heard recently but it used not to be.

youdao

You move out to someplace that nobody bothered to farm before, because it wasn't profitable enough, because you need more land.

你搬到一块以前没人耕作过的土地上,因为它并不是那么有利可图,但是你需要更多的土地

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so for about six, oh, no, it was nine hours a day, it's a long time ago.

每天要上六个，噢，不是，是九个小时的课，这都是很久以前的事情了。

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This is all far back, when Dean was not the way he is today, when he was a young jail kid shrouded in mystery.

这都是很早以前，安还不是现在的样子，那时他还是个笼罩着神秘感的坐牢的小孩。

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