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

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

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

His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人，他是一个改革家，当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I don't know who's coming next class, or what but I'll set up a few minutes prior, at the beginning of the class, for people just to introduce themselves to the person next to them so they have some sort of resource in the class.

我不知道下节课会有谁来,有什么情况,不过我会在课程开始的时候,先安排几分钟,让你们向前后左右的同学,进行一番自我介绍,这样你们就能在这个班里,认识一些新同学了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And similarly, particularly for those less comfortable, do we offer prior to the start of each week for a new piece at what we dub a walkthrough whereby one of the teaching fellows will literally start on the first page, give you a mental framework for the week's problems and talk about the ideas that it covers, and then walk through the piece set so that you have a roadmap of sorts that you can follow.

同样，特别对于那些不熟悉编程跟不上进度的同学，每周上课前都可以预习新的知识点,一名教师从第一页开始,对于每周的问题,都给你们简历一个心理框架,并讨论它所涵盖的思想，然后了解了每个部分之后,就可以有个学习的路线图。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And so, it really is a course aimed at students with little or no prior programming experience.

因此，这真的只是,一门针对无经验,或者极少经验的学生的课程。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选