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他开始歇斯底里，开始跟以前一样说“你长大了，翅膀硬了。 He started hyperventilating, began as before . " You grow up, wing hard." | ||
大坝一定要在雨季开始以前合拢，否则就会前功尽弃。 The dam must be closed before the rainy season sets in, or all our Labour will be lost. | ||
在对外殖民扩张开始以前，蟾蜍家族起源于南美洲的热带。 The toad family originated in the tropics of South America before colonizing the rest of the globe. | ||
他发现有些人看起来不像一两天以前那么高兴，就开始说风凉话； He began to throw out chaffing remarks about people not looking quite so happy as they did a day or two ago; | ||
一次我被一段阅读震惊，它说：当人类在五六千年以前，开始可以掠夺和奴役，就开始了这个错误。 I was struck by something I once read about man going wrong about five or six thousand years ago, when he began to be able to plunder and take slaves. | ||
沉默片刻之后，她开始讲述自己那令人震惊的故事，以前她只告诉过一个人。 After a few moments of silence, she began her devastating story which she had told only one time before. | ||
十点以前，这些妇女已然开始做腌菜，在沙丽上刺绣或是收捡垃圾。 By 10 o'clock the women have turned their hands variously to making pickles, embroidering saris or collecting rubbish. | ||
咸丰以前，漠南蒙古及东北地区的林木基本得到保护，但咸丰后开始遭到大肆砍伐。 Before Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing dynasty, the forest was protected basically in Monan Mongolia and Northeast China. But after Xianfeng Emperor, the trees was felled wantonly. | ||
三天以前，大前天。 Three days ago. | ||
以前那个时候情况大不相同。 Things were very different back then. | ||
