In fact,the question happened to arrive just a few days before the pop star died on June twenty-fifth.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Setting yourself up before the fact so that you can win an argument after the fact, so that you didn't--you just got unlucky.

在事实发生之前先给自己预设一下结局,你就能在事实发生之后赢得一场争论，所以你并不是不能做到-，只是不走运而已。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What's obvious after the fact is not what's obvious before the fact.

显而易见的现存事物，在其诞生前,并不是那么显而易见的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In fact,he did not express support for the Democratic candidate until a few days before the election.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

We looked at pressure change before, actually, in discussing the third law, the fact that the entropy goes to zero as the absolute temperature goes to zero for a pure,perfect crystal.

在讨论热力学第三定律的时候，我们讨论过压强变化,即对于纯净的完美晶体,随着温度下降到绝对零度熵也变成零。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

In fact,the two spacecraft almost touched each other before they separated.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The position that says, you should always have the fact of your mortality forever before your mind's eye-- I think that's misguided.

那种认为，你应该一直永远想着,你必有一死的事实的观点-,我认为那是有误导的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I suggest that you point to me and present the evidentiary fact before this court for to suggest, as you are,that I am lying,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

In fact, fibroblasts, which I talked about before, are very good producers of collagen, they produce the collagen matrix within which they live.

实际上,我刚讲过的,成纤维细胞,尤善于此,它们制造了自己生活环境中的,胶原蛋白基质

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

All right. So let's test what we, in fact, know about the photoelectric effect, and before we do that actually, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful and we can tell whether we're successful or not.

好的，我们来测试一些，我们实际上懂了,多少光电效应的东西，在我们做测试之前，我们先算一下我们能预知什么，这样我们做的测试会很有意义,并且也知道我们是否成功了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We don't, of course, have any original copies of these materials as they came off the pen of whoever it was who was writing them, and in fact before the middle of the twentieth century, our oldest manuscripts and fragments of manuscripts of the Bible dated to the year 900.

我们当然没有任何最早时期那些笔者的,手稿，而且事实上,在20世纪中期之前我们有的最古老的手稿,和手稿碎片都是公元900年时候的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The inevitable conclusion that I reach and I believe any sensible reader of Aristotle would reach is that Aristotle in fact discovered the American Constitution 1 500 or 2 000 years before it was written.

但会得到结论,且我相信,任何敏感的亚里士多德读者都会得到的结论是,亚里士多德，事实上,早在美国宪法写就之前的,1，500，或，2，000，年即已创建。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So this is version two of the swap function and, in fact, it is almost identical, this is before, this is after, before, after and it looks like the solution to this problem that we've been revisiting a couple of times now is just to do what?

这个swap函数的第二个版本，实际上，这几乎是一样的，这是之前的，这个之后的，之前的，之后的，这看起来像是这个问题的解决方案,我们一直多次访问它,目的是什么呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选