他是一分钟之前从公园走过的。

He walked across the park a minute ago.

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他十分钟之前给你打电话了。

He called you up ten minutes ago.

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那只猫是两分钟之前从墙上跳下去的。

The cat jumped off the wall two minutes ago.

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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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A couple of announcements before we get started: tomorrow there will be a 10 minute quiz in recitation based upon the content of homework one.

在我们开始之前有几点声明：,明天会有一个10分钟的小测验,详细叙述课后作业内容。

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This is actually very representative of when you do research in the laboratory, you will find often things do not work quite exactly as they worked 20 minutes ago when you just checked it in your office, for example.

在实验室做研究时,这个实际上是非常具有代表性的，举个例子,当时只是在办公室核查它时,你经常会发现事物无法,像它们20分钟之前那样精确的工作。

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