A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
之前
Before
You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.
你听到很多司机说他们不喜欢的时候就会辞职。这就是发生在我身上的事情。这是多种因素的综合作用，但最主要的是失去了我以前一直感受到的那种热情。
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.
其实很有趣，因为那还是我们约会的时候。他会接到所有这些电话，因为据说在我们分手之前，我们已经在交易中分手了，在破衣烂衫中分手了。
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
不到一个小时，他就庆幸自己摆脱了地球上所有的陷阱，人类所有的陷阱。不知道最大的陷阱，最后的和致命的陷阱，就在这个星球上。
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
这就是我们之前说过的喇叭:它是一个焦点问题。就像一个歌手和一个鼓手。如果一个鼓手在打鼓，一个歌手开始唱歌，你认为观众会怎么做?
Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.
在我继续演讲的五分钟前，我看着我的经理说:我要被嘘了。我知道会发生的。你有责任，因为是你让我来的。这是可怕的。我这辈子从未受过这么大的伤害。
I don't really have any kind of rigorous or definite routine before I go onstage. I like to eat at least an hour or two before I go on. If I can't do that, I just wait until after. I try and drink lots of water before I go onstage.
在我上台之前，我并没有任何严格或明确的例行公事。我喜欢在开始前至少吃一两个小时。如果我做不到，我就等着。我试着在上台之前喝很多水。
Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
我在这个行业呆了这么久，就像战前住在城镇里，战后住在城市里，重建期间住在城市里，重建期间住在购物中心里。
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.
聋人社区处于有利地位，因为他们有一个国家剧院和他们自己的培训小组，让他们开始。失聪演员在得到休息之前往往已经获得了非常宝贵的技能和经验。
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.
从更广泛的意义上说，我们将必须审查各项保障计划，确保这些计划能够在这些家庭遭受更大损失之前抓住他们，特别是在失业救济、儿童保健援助和寄养方面。
The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.
有一张照片引起了很多讨论，这是我拍的一张照片，照片上一个男人头朝下倒在了楼里，楼还没倒。他被困在火里，决定跳下去结束自己的生命，而不是被烧死。
It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, 'Just let me do what I do.'
在我和唱片公司签约之前，写歌要容易得多，因为唱片公司和唱片行业并不想给你施加压力，但他们确实给了你压力。他们没有意识到这一点，但你最终会感受到一种压力。有时我觉得自己想说，‘让我做我该做的吧。’
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
生活过了一半，我们才知道它是什么。
What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?
我们在乎的是人的审判吗?我们既然在生命之前是纯洁的，还有什么可怀疑的呢?
I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.
我被抓之前从来没有留过长发。我被抓之前从来没留过胡子。
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
我一直想在高中毕业前发行自己的专辑。
If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.
如果你正确地打扫房间，它会在变得干净之前变得更脏。
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
资产阶级有可能在自己的世界离开历史舞台之前就把它炸得粉碎。