In the weeks before her death she won her twenty-ninth Blues Music Award, the most for any artist ever.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Milton surveys the wealth of literary tradition before him, and he resists its allure without the help of any human guide.

弥尔顿在他之前就调查过文学传统的宝藏，他在没有人帮助的情况下抗拒了这一诱惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now you also may remember that we have already run into Spenser's Mammon before this point, before Paradise Lost.

现在你们可能也记得我们已经,在遇到《失乐园》之前就与斯潘塞的贪欲之神相遇了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is always a good idea to keep a lot of necessary supplies in the home even before winter begins.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

What was neat about it is before that time, the predominant species to use for air conditioning or refrigeration was ammonia.

在这之前是很整洁的，之前最主要的用于空调或者冰箱的,物质是氨。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Gather and tie the leaves over the head, and do not wait for the buds to separate before harvesting.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The writers of the study have called for stronger rules requiring cattle to be treated before being sold at market.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

I had not really had a conversation with a person who was out as lesbian or gay before I was in college.

在上大学以前,我从未真正地和一个,出柜的同性恋谈过话。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Decreases in barometric pressure two to three days before the visit also appeared to trigger headaches, but to a lesser extent.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

You'll also notice that this thing goes through the entire list, even if the list is sorted before it gets partway through.

你也能注意到，它始终会遍历列表,甚至列表在排序之前,就是有序的也是这样。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This week America's top military officer expressed support for the proposal at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

The assertion is not that there is no other god, but that Israel will have no other god before Yahweh.

这个主张并不是说这里没有其他的上帝,而是说犹太人不能再有除耶和华以外的神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Spreading mulch before the ground has frozen may attract small animals searching for a warm place to spend the winter.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Another is the admonition not to throw your pearls before swine, not to preach to those who can't hear, or won't be perceptive.

第二个是一句警句：,不要在猪的面前乱扔你的珍珠，不要对那些失聪者，和不可感化者布道。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

First,they don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light,at dawn, or after dark,at night.

首先，他们不在白天聚会;,要么在天亮前的黎明，要么在天黑后的夜晚。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The researcher said that before the body begins to freeze, cold can cause changes in brain chemistry which lead to hallucinations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Yeats is talking about an event that has brought forth destruction, destruction of the world before the Easter Uprising.

叶芝描绘了这样一个事件,它带来了毁灭，对复活节前世界的毁灭。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was interested in British Common Law, because his family had come to America from England many years before.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Well, let's just give a teaser of some of the details before we move on to actual interesting functionality.

在转去介绍,其他更实际有趣的知识前,我先让大家注意一个小细节。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It was Richard Nixon who brought home most of the troops before South Vietnam fell to the north in nineteen seventy-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

I mentioned this before -I think I mentioned it before -if you say, I'm going to ask you to bet on a coin toss.

我之前提到过...,应该提到过...,我邀请你与我赌硬币正反面

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They were told to use the gels twelve hours before sexual intercourse and again within twelve hours after sex.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

But the action of the Republic takes place long before the defeat of Athens, before the rise of the Thirty and the execution of Athens .

但《理想国》撰写的时间,远早于雅典战败，及三十暴君掌权之前,也早于雅典被处决之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Three days before his death, he joined volunteers at his yearly event to give toys to needy children in Augusta,Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Welles heard that obviously, and he quickly came back. But when she died, he stopped taking lessons, before that, he was adept before he was ten years old.

威尔斯当然听到了，所以他,很快回来了，但在,他母亲去世之后，他就不再上课了，在这之前，在他十岁的时候他就对乐器很熟练了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Both became lawyers. They each served in the Illinois state legislature before serving one term in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

I wanted to introduce it to you so that if you don't haven't heard about this before you might want to read a little bit about this before we get to Chapter 5.

我想给你们介绍一下细胞膜,所以如果你没有,以前没听说过这个的话,也许你在学到第五章之前,要读一点关于这些的文献

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Earlier the objection was, We had no good reason to think the soul was one of the building blocks from which we're composed; we have no good reason to think it's one of the pieces that was around before our body got put together, before our birth.

早一点的反驳意见是,我们没有好的理由来相信灵魂,是组成我们的一个基础部件,我们没有好的理由去相信它是,在我们出生前,身体形成前就存在的部分之一

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选