plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.

好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I had been living in Japan for two years prior to meeting her. I'd been over there,

在认识她之前，我在日本住了两年。那段时间我一直呆在日本，

从朋友到恋人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The religious thing Zooey says is to inhabit that, to honor that, to follow up on the results of that prior desiring.

左伊所说的宗教的事情就是去继承那点，去崇拜那点，去跟随欲望的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

f truth is the recognition of the systematic character of a certain kind of error, then it would be fully dependent on the prior existence of this error.

如果真理是,对一种错误的系统化字符的认可，那么它会完全依赖于这个错误的先前存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Prior to joining the chaplaincy program, I did a lot of activism work in specific Islamic institutions served board of directors, chairs, and presidencies.

在参加这个教士培养的项目之前，我在一些伊斯兰教的组织做过工作,在董事会，主席等手下任职。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now, this course is primarily aimed at students who have little or no prior programming experience.

现在，这门课程,主要面向零基础,或少量编程经验的学生。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So if you're coming from prior background, your code might work a little differently on a different system if you don't use those flags.

如果你来自一个先前的背景，如果你们没有使用这个版本标志的话，在一个不同的系统中,你的代码可能运行地不太一样。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Prior to the exams I will post previous exams online, so you have a feeling for how these exams work and so on.

考试前我会把历年真题放在网上,以便大家熟悉考试模式

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The subprime mortgage market was bringing people into the mortgage market who in prior decades would not have been involved-- would not have had any mortgage.

次贷抵押信贷市场,把十多年前那些,不能获得抵押贷款的人,带进了抵押信贷市场

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Also, it's only after their defiance of God's command that Adam and Eve first become aware of, and ashamed by, their nakedness, putting the sort of sexual awakening after the act of disobedience rather than at the same time or prior to.

同时，在亚当夏娃，违背了上帝的命令后,第一次为他们的赤身裸体，感到羞愧，他们的性觉醒，产生于违背上帝的意愿之后,而不是在他们被创造之初。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

What's really prior is the car itself and talking about car stages is a certain convenience a kind of way of chopping up the fundamental thing of the car.

重要的是,汽车本身,谈论阶段只是提供便利,是一个把基本部分,切分开的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

but you have a prior engagement and you really must be going, you can say,

但是你已有约在先，你真的必须走了，你可以说，

I wish 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And the third fact that we need to keep in mind is that spins remain parallel prior to adding a second electron in any of the orbitals.

第三个事实是我们需要记住在,每个轨道加入第二个电子之前,自旋保持平行。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Prior to the bailout money for the banks, the banks were lending a certain amount, after the bailout money, the banks were lending less.

在拯救银行的措施实施之前，银行在贷款，而救市之后，银行价款量反而少了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

So one of the reasons there is a huge increase in life span is because people aren't dying of things that they would have in prior years.

寿命范围显著增长的一个原因是,人们不再死于,以前那些致死的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

prior to that type of control is completely lost.

等到完全混乱了再采取行动为时已晚。

反对体罚 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In other words, his point is that good is only possible because of the prior existence of bad.

换句话说，他的论点是,善存在的可能,仅在恶的事先存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As Heidegger points out in this passage, that's a thought experiment which, if it can be done at all, derives from that prior knowledge.

海德格尔在文章中指出，这个思想实验，在可以实现的前提下，来源于之前的知识。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选