你觉得我们12点前能到多佛吗？

Do you think we'll make Dover by 12?

《牛津词典》

他八点前已到了我住的旅馆。

By eight o'clock he had arrived at my hotel.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我必须八点前打卡上班。

I have to clock in by eight.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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So before we leave coordination games, I want to look at another one, a little bit more complicated one perhaps, that we mentioned briefly last time.

在我们结束讲解协调博弈前,我们再来看一个,稍微复杂点的问题,上一讲我简单提到过的

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For example, in the late 1990s, if you were to ask a question--I'm hypothesizing -how likely is it that the Dow will be over 10,000 by the year 2008?

例如,在90年代末,假如有人问你这样一个问题,道指在2008年底前,突破万点大关的可能性有多大

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