电报、电话和无线电显然是互联网、iPods 和移动电话的前身。

The telegraph, the telephone, and radio were the obvious predecessors of the Internet, iPods, and mobile phones.

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1964年，奈特和鲍尔曼分别向耐克的前身蓝丝带体育公司捐款500美元。

In 1964, Knight and Bowerman contributed $500 each to from Blue Ribbon Sports, the predecessor of Nike.

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虽然我仍然不喜欢 Kindle 的设计，但它和其前身相比已经有了很大的改进，当然也可以接受。

Though I'm still not keen on the design of the Kindle, it is a vast improvement on its predecessor and certainly tolerable.

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It's subsequently seen as one of the precursors of the First Amendment to the American Constitution.

后来它被看作是美国宪法,第一修正案的前身。

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He spent his entire career at Yale and he wrote-- He was Head of our social sciences department, before we had separate departments of economics and psychology, etc.

他将毕生奉献给了耶鲁,而且他写了...,他是社会科学系的主任,社会科学系是,经济学系与心理学系等系的前身

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