They'd won 12 straight games before they lost.

他们在输掉之前已赢了连续12场比赛。

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"We're going northeast," Paula told them, before they started.

“我们将朝东北方向走，”葆拉在他们出发前告诉他们。

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Many years elapsed before they met again.

过了许多年他们才再次相见。

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They have less than two weeks to go before they must perform the play for the Shakespeare in the Courts program.

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Many of those figures who belong to the New Critics did much of their important work before they arrived at Yale.

很多来自新批评派的名人,在到耶鲁教书前就已经做了很多重要的工作。

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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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They announced a truce the other day and the ink's hardly dry before they start shooting.

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This test lets doctors catch cervical lesions early and snip them away before they can become malignant.

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These girls are married off before they are physically or emotionally mature enough to become wives or mothers.

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