The way he came up with his scale was actually he borrowed the Romer scale, which came beforehand.

他设计的温标,实际上是借用了更早的罗默温标，罗默是个丹麦人。

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You kind of have to work those things out, like establish what you are beforehand like,

你需要把事情谈清楚，比如什么事都要提前说好，

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All right, this is actually a very old piece of imperative knowledge for computing square roots, it's attributed to Heron of Alexandria, although I believe that the Babylonians are suspected of knowing it beforehand.

好，这是一个很古老的,关于计算平方根的程序性知识，是亚历山大的海伦提出的，不过我怀疑在那之前,巴比伦人就已经猜想过了。

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Also that person should watch the movie beforehand and then coming with any ideas.

当然该同学必须提前看那部电影,然后过来上课时准备一些想法。

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But... I guess the best way is to know how the tests are set up beforehand

但是……我觉得最好是提前知道考试是什么样的。

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And developing a... kind of plan for what to do if there's a disagreement beforehand.

提前制定一套应对矛盾的方案。

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And you were unsure that it was offensive beforehand.

而事前你并不清楚这对客户来说是一件忌讳的事。

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I think the book has a fairly good description of it so if you don't pick up everything in the lecture, hopefully you've read that beforehand, and you can go back to it afterwards and read about things that didn't make sense.

我认为课本对DNA表述很详细,所以在课堂上无需面面俱到,希望你们之前做过预习,课后你们可以通过复习,弄懂那些不甚理解的地方

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