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

In fact, I dug up this from a few years ago it was actually pretty fortuitous like the day before one of CS50s lectures the original iPhone was cracked.

实际上，我在几年前,发现了这个，这是相当意外的,就像在一个CS50演讲前一天,我的iPhone，坏掉了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And I know that like in Japan, they like to cultivate relationships first before they do business with one another,

我知道，在日本，人们在做生意之前先经营彼此关系。

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NASA warned the three astronauts inside about one hour before the object was to reach the area of the station.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

One tip about this, try to identify all the dominated strategies of all players before you delete, then delete.

这里有一个窍门,在剔除之前试着找出,所有参与人的劣势策略,然后再剔除它们

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Many of the matches were fixed. The wrestlers knew before the match which one of them would be the winner.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

My brother planned to have a glass of beer with his friends a quick one C before he went home.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Rather, he claims that he wants to hear justice defended the way that no one has ever defended it before.

相对地，他声称,他想要听到正义自卫的方式,是没有人曾提出的捍卫方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He says each new version of one bill is weaker and less effective than the one before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

So at the very top, I've coded up the same thing as before: "Give me an integer between one and ten," or rather, -- "give me an integer between one and ten" -- a little different this time.

所以在顶部，我像之前那样对同样的东西进行编码：,“给我一个1到10的整数“，或者，“给我一个1到10的整数“,这次有点不同。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

One-third of every steamboat built in the United States before 1850 exploded and destroyed became a wreck.

850年以前,美国制造的每三艘蒸汽船,就有一艘爆炸或毁坏,彻底地报销

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

But there's one more step they have to take before they're integrated back into the community.

但是在重新融入社会之前,还有一个步骤。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark.Then I'll go,too."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

But this case should remind you of something, because this case is one that we've actually discussed before "Methuselah" under the label of "Methuselah."

但这个例子应该让你们想起一件事，因为以前我们曾探讨过这个例子,援引的例子是“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So,Republican Congressman William McKinley of Ohio proposed a new tariff bill -- one that would raise import taxes higher than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

One is what we talked about before regarding first impressions, which is a confirmation bias.

其中一个就是我们之间谈第一印象是，讲到的确认偏向。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He said that never before had he spoken to a group as troubled and worried as the one he spoke to now.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Now you do have an opportunity-- this class does- that my class has never had before, and that is to nominate your own novel for the last one that we read, one of your choice.

现在你真的有了个机会-,在我的课上有了个机会-,去推荐一本小说作为我们的最后一本读物,你们自己的选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One hour before landing, Lovell,Swigert and Haise said thanks and goodbye to their lifeboat, the lunar module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

This intuitively should make a lot of sense, because we know we're trying to minimize electron repulsions to keep things in as low an energy state as possible, so it makes sense that we would put one electron in each orbital first before we double up in any orbital.

这个直观上讲得通，因为我们知道尝试去最小化电子排斥力,从而尽可能的保持处于一个较低的能态,所以它讲得通,在我们在同一个轨道放入两个电子之前,我们首先把电子放入每一个轨道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Also,companies will have to send out billing statements at least twenty-one days before a payment is owed.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Carbohydrate has really shifted, and so people are eating more calories from carbohydrate before, sugars primarily, and that is coming primarily from added sugar, or that's at least one of the primary contributors.

碳水化合物也有明显的变化,比前人更多的从碳水化合物中摄取热量,以糖类为主,也就是说主要是添加糖类的食物,至少这是主要的来源之一

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

For example, a student says "preclude" instead of "precede" when talking about one event coming before another.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

What it means is if you'd release a rock at that location one second before with a certain speed that we can calculate, it would've ended up here with precisely the position and velocity it had at the beginning of our experiment.

它的意义在于,若在该处以特定速度抛出一个物体,这个速度可通过计算得到,一秒之后,物体会运动至我们设定的起点,并且速度为我们设定的初速度

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Homestake operated as a gold mine for one hundred twenty-five years before closing about nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The Hepatitis B vaccine I talked about before produced by recombinant DNA technologies, called Recombivax HB, that's one version of it.

我曾经提到过的通过DNA重组技术,制造的乙型肝炎疫苗,被称作重组乙型肝炎疫苗,那是该疫苗的型号之一

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

kind of one of those things that happens right before you at the end of the year,

在年底毕业之前，这样的过程也会发生，

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