在那以前我从未骑过摩托车。但当时已来不及临阵脱逃。

I had never ridden on a motor-cycle before. But it was too late to chicken out.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

在那以前，许多孩子在无人情味的大孤儿院里被照料。

Before then many children were cared for in large impersonal orphanages.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

但是在那以前，德国人看起来更像有酸葡萄心里。

But until that happens, Germany's stance runs the risk of looking more like sour grapes than anything else.

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But there was an exhibit of jellyfish, I know at least until last year, at the Boston Museum of Science, and all of you guys can get in there free.

但那以前有水母的展示，我知道至少去年有，在波士顿科学博物馆，你们都可以免费去看。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So I did teach English in a foreign country, in Greece for a year, a long time ago.

那么我在外国教过英语，在希腊教了一年，那是在很久以前了。

在公园相遇的老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So one problem is unenforceability but that might far off ago that might have been a problem.

强制性是一个问题,但那也是在很久以前的问题

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