我以前不是做软件开发的。

I wasn't always a software developer.

youdao

我可以看出有人篡改了账目，一个星期以前不是这样的。

I can see someone doctored the accounts; it wasn't like that a week ago.

youdao

我不是一个逃跑的人，以前不是，将来也不会是。

I'm not a quitter – never have been, never will 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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