好吧，在我说话之前我要先知道。

Ross: Ok. Well, before I say anything, I just need to know.

youdao

我要先知道他是代表什么的，才能投他的票。

I want to know what he stands for before I 'll vote for him.

youdao

他说他会带来但是他要先知道她觉得月亮有多大。

He said he would get it but first he wanted to know how big she thought the moon was.

youdao

One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.

一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。

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