Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination.
早在我去非洲之前，它就栩栩如生地在我的脑海中了。
They were around long before films.
在电影诞生之前，他们就已经出现很久了。
The history of the EEOB began long before its foundations were laid.
艾森豪威尔行政大楼的历史早在奠基之前就开始了。
There were badgers here, I've been told, long before that same city ever came to be.
我听说，在同样的那座城市出现很久以前，这里就有獾子了。
I could see the details of people's faces long before they were standing in front of me.
早在人们站在我面前之前，我就能看到他们面部的细节。
Long before Man lived on the Earth, there were fishes, reptiles, birds, insects, and some mammals.
在人类出现很早以前，地球上就出现了鱼类、爬虫类、鸟类和一些哺乳动物。
But long before that even, people were experimenting with ways to modify traditional acoustic guitars.
但甚至早在那之前，人们就已经在试验改良传统原声吉他的方法了。
The trend toward rationality and enlightenment was endangered long before the advent of the World Wide Web.
远在万维网出现之前，理性和启蒙的趋势就已受到了威胁。
It's understandable that this was before 1879 which was when Red Cliff was founded, and long before Harvard became co-ed.
可以理解的是，那是1879年之前，雷德克利夫学院刚成立，并且远在哈佛成为男女合校之前。
He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.
他似乎早在现代经济学发展之前就对现代社会经济理论有所了解。
He retired long before the war.
他在战争之前早就退休了。
Your baby will begin to vocalize long before she can talk.
你的女婴在会说话前很早就要开始咿呀发声了。
Shoppers began arriving long before the 10am opening time.
离上午10点开门时间还早，顾客就陆陆续续地来了。
It was not long before I realized the enormity of my faux pas.
没过多久我就发现了我有多么的失礼。
It will not be long before the inflation figure starts to fall.
过不了多久，通货膨胀的数字就会开始下降。
It wasn't long before the strain began to tell on our relationship.
很快，这种极度的紧张就开始对我们的关系产生严重影响。
"This should have been decided long before now."—"We can't think of everything."
“这在此前早该定下了。”—“我们不可能事事都考虑。”
I ran up against the problem of getting taken seriously long before I became a writer.
还远没有成为作家我就碰到了得到重视的问题。
我比太阳起得早。
Long before morning, all was done again.
天还没亮，一切又重新开始。
Most avalanches occur long before this happens.
大多数雪崩在这之前就发生了。
Nor was it long before the little man reappeared.
没过多久，小个子男人又出现了。
We had not sat long before another person came in.
我们没坐多久，又进来了一个人。
It won't be long before you regret what you have done.
过不了多久，你就会后悔你做的事。
It won't be long before we know the result of the experiment.
不久之后，我们就会知道实验的结果。
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