“这在此前早该定下了。”—“我们不可能事事都考虑。”

"This should have been decided long before now."—"We can't think of everything."

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她当时告知我们，18位教职员在此前的一年里离开了。

She informed us that eighteen members of the staff had left during the preceding year.

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在此前的推测中，每一升海水中可能会有大约10万个微生物细胞，但现在科学家们认为有可能达到10亿个。

Previously it was thought there were around 100, 000 microbial cells in every litre of seawater but scientists now think there could be one billion.

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So much of the pathos of Satan's fallen condition involves his painful memory of that blissful state in heaven from which he had fallen.

很多撒旦堕落后的悲怆,夹杂了他憾失此前在天堂的幸福生活的,苦痛的回忆。

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The Russian empire is one of those empires that continued, arguably-- not arguably, it was the case-- after the four empires disappeared with World War I.

俄帝国可以说是,那些得以延续的帝国之一,这的确是事实,毕竟此前的四大帝国在一战中相继陨落

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So, everybody agrees about that. Certainly not before that.

所有人都认同这点,而不是在此前建立

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