以前我们没有很多钱，所以我们缩减了开支。

We didn't have too much money, so we cut down on expenses.

youdao

由于以前我们没有和你们做生意，如果您给我们最优惠的价格和最好的条件我会很高兴。

As we have not had the pleasure of doing business with you previously, I should be glad if you could favor us with the lowest prices and the best terms.

youdao

没有——不过我想说，还是像我们以前那样，晚上来吧——这样好些。

No--but I'd say come in the night as we used to do--it's better.

youdao

Also, creativity-- we think broadly-- we are able to make connections, see connections we haven't seen before, perhaps.

还有创造力，我们的眼界更宽-,能产生更多联系，看到以前没有看到的联系。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Now, we've known for a long time that empathetic feeling is not logically linked to morality.

我们很久以前就知道,移情和道德之间没有逻辑关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is the claim--not that nobody believes they're going to die; that's the one we've been talking about for the last lecture or so--but instead, the claim that everybody dies alone.

这论点是这样的，不同于我们以前所讲的;,没有人相信自己会死亡，而是说每个人都是孤独而死的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选