In the weeks before her death she won her twenty-ninth Blues Music Award, the most for any artist ever.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Milton wants to write an epic that in some ways comes before, or prevents, the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿想写一首在某种程度上先于，荷马和维吉尔伟大史诗的史诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

To me it's about how to live more fully like what we were talking before, in this moment, not an isolation.

对我而言这更多是像之前所说,如何更充实地活，活在当下，不是与世隔绝。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is always a good idea to keep a lot of necessary supplies in the home even before winter begins.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Milton surveys the wealth of literary tradition before him, and he resists its allure without the help of any human guide.

弥尔顿在他之前就调查过文学传统的宝藏，他在没有人帮助的情况下抗拒了这一诱惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Gather and tie the leaves over the head, and do not wait for the buds to separate before harvesting.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

What was neat about it is before that time, the predominant species to use for air conditioning or refrigeration was ammonia.

在这之前是很整洁的，之前最主要的用于空调或者冰箱的,物质是氨。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The writers of the study have called for stronger rules requiring cattle to be treated before being sold at market.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Many of those figures who belong to the New Critics did much of their important work before they arrived at Yale.

很多来自新批评派的名人,在到耶鲁教书前就已经做了很多重要的工作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Decreases in barometric pressure two to three days before the visit also appeared to trigger headaches, but to a lesser extent.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

You'll also notice that this thing goes through the entire list, even if the list is sorted before it gets partway through.

你也能注意到，它始终会遍历列表,甚至列表在排序之前,就是有序的也是这样。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This week America's top military officer expressed support for the proposal at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

The assertion is not that there is no other god, but that Israel will have no other god before Yahweh.

这个主张并不是说这里没有其他的上帝,而是说犹太人不能再有除耶和华以外的神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Spreading mulch before the ground has frozen may attract small animals searching for a warm place to spend the winter.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Another is the admonition not to throw your pearls before swine, not to preach to those who can't hear, or won't be perceptive.

第二个是一句警句：,不要在猪的面前乱扔你的珍珠，不要对那些失聪者，和不可感化者布道。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

First,they don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light,at dawn, or after dark,at night.

首先，他们不在白天聚会;,要么在天亮前的黎明，要么在天黑后的夜晚。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The researcher said that before the body begins to freeze, cold can cause changes in brain chemistry which lead to hallucinations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Yeats is talking about an event that has brought forth destruction, destruction of the world before the Easter Uprising.

叶芝描绘了这样一个事件,它带来了毁灭，对复活节前世界的毁灭。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was interested in British Common Law, because his family had come to America from England many years before.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

And we're data junkies, so we like to get a lot of data before we make a big decision like that.

我们是数据控，所以一般先收集很多数据,在做重大决定的时候。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

It was Richard Nixon who brought home most of the troops before South Vietnam fell to the north in nineteen seventy-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Well, let's just give a teaser of some of the details before we move on to actual interesting functionality.

在转去介绍,其他更实际有趣的知识前,我先让大家注意一个小细节。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They were told to use the gels twelve hours before sexual intercourse and again within twelve hours after sex.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

I mean it's understandable-- this was before 1879 which was when Red Cliff was founded, and long before Harvard became co-ed.

这是可以理解的-,那是1879年之前，雷德克利夫学院还没成立，远在哈佛成为男女合校之前。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Three days before his death, he joined volunteers at his yearly event to give toys to needy children in Augusta,Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

I mean, you may not understand it with algebra before but some of these sorts of pictures have you seen before?

我是说可能代数部分你没看懂,但你们以前见过类似的图像吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Both became lawyers. They each served in the Illinois state legislature before serving one term in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Would anybody volunteer to say a sentence, non obscene, non derogatory, that has never been spoken before on earth, ever?

有没有人自愿说个句子,不能是下流的,不敬的,得是世上从未有人说过的句子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I want to spend some time on that until we talk about-- before we talk about development of the polio vaccine.

我想多花些时间讨论这个问题,在我们讨论,在我们讨论脊髓灰质炎疫苗的发展之前

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选