He continued to broadcast on VOA until not long before his death in 1996, at the age of 75.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.

早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Behaviorism is a school of thought that was there long before Skinner, championed by psychologists like John Watson, for instance.

行为主义学派,远在斯金纳提出他的理论之前就已经存在，受到了众多心理学家的拥护,比如约翰·华生。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In that event,astronomers were able to observe the icy comet long before it struck the solar system's biggest planet.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

I mean it's understandable-- this was before 1879 which was when Red Cliff was founded, and long before Harvard became co-ed.

这是可以理解的-,那是1879年之前，雷德克利夫学院还没成立，远在哈佛成为男女合校之前。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Norman Borlaug taught at Texas A&M University and worked on international projects until not long before his death on September twelfth.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.

而且是公开的驳斥,他似乎已知现代社会的经济原理,且是在现代经济学开始发展之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As president, it was not long before he got into trouble in the battles of politics and government.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The majority of Englishmen were calling for the return of their nation's rightful monarch. It wasn't long before the revolution failed and the Stuart monarchy was restored.

大部分英国人都在呼吁国家的,合法君主归位，不久,革命失败了，斯图亚特王朝复辟。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Long before the "Twilight" series, writer Anne Rice created another popular series of vampire books.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

And it's certainly true that the atoms that make up my body existed long before my body existed.

可以肯定的说,那些组成我身体的,原子在我存在之前就存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He died long before the search for Planet X resulted in the discovery of Pluto.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Well, this is ridiculous because people were making cannons long before 1840.

当然了，这个故事毫无道理,因为人们制作加农炮还是1840年以前的事情了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Tennessee said yes to women's basketball long before it was a popular thing to do.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

It won't be long before we're using these same kind of devices to both record--to test what's going on-- and to act in the right way and response.

相信不久以后,这个装置就可以同时记录和反馈,大脑的信号,并做出相应的回应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And officials said the study had begun long before the latest debate on health reform.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Just has indicates the New deal, the new deal, most of the key people in new deal were for big government intervention, long before there was a stock market crash.

就像新政所证明的一样，大多数起草新政的关键人物,都赞成大规模政府监管，早在股票市场崩盘之前他们就这样想了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Haiti was considered to be in crisis long before the earthquake in January.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

What you see is a bump up in activation in this nucleus accumbens in this area right when people see the product long before they are going to make a decision which continues.

这张图是受试者在见到商品之后,这一区域的伏隔核活动骤然攀升,而这种情况早在受试者作出决定之前,就已经发生，而且持续了下来。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Congress met a few weeks after the election, long before Taylor took office.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Those of you more comfortable, rest assured we'll start filling in some gaps before long if you're already familiar with this.

那些程度比较好的同学，我们马上来讲一下以前遗漏的问题,如果你们已经熟悉这门课，那会觉得那容易接受。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It would not be long before the situation in Kansas became violent.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.

当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

She often did things long before they became accepted in society.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It did not take long before my friend's dishonesty was discovered.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

This actually relates very closely to what we discussed in class on Friday before the long weekend, and what we were talking about is the energy levels of multielectron atoms.

这实际上与,上个长周末之前的周五的课上,我们所讨论的内容有着密切的联系，当时我们在讨论,多电子原子的能级。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It was not long before American soldiers reached the European continent.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

I only want to suggest to you with this long preamble that much of the work that lies before us is actually in the past and we have already accomplished it.

我之前讲这么多，只是想让大家知道,这么多的疑问我们之前已经遇到了,并且已经解决了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think they may have to have a Basel III before too long because everything gets more and more complex in the world.

我认为不久就会推出第三次巴塞尔协议,因为世上万事都变得越来越复杂了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选