A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
之前
Before
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
把你的话吐出来之前一定要细细品味。
I like to give up on others before they give up on me.
我喜欢在别人放弃我之前先放弃他们。
Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.
早在我有钱之前,我对汽车的热情就在那里了。
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
首先,准备是成功的关键。
Treat her well. Before you are together, And after as well.
对她好。在你们在一起之前,也在一起之后。
Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.
在我进入这个行业之前,我做的是鸡肉生意。
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
在印刷术出现之前,书籍基本上是奢侈品。
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
我自己的想法是,这些东西就像风前的拨浪鼓。
Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
在莎士比亚之前,雅各比的戏剧是特别发自内心的。
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
有耐心。凡事必先难后易。
Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.
有时我试着在演出前小睡一会儿。这让我头脑清醒。
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
我们所知道的是,工作场所的要求比以往任何时候都要高。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
然而,当一个人怀疑一个人知道一些他以前从未听说过的关于生活的事情时,他会感到不安,直到他知道他要说什么为止。
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
在你们全家以先,吩咐管理你们家室的人,要儆醒,使你们全家里外,都诚实,劳苦,贞洁,清洁,诚实,有益处。
First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
首先,我们有来自士兵的宣誓证词,以及在我们工作人员面前的证词,这些证词都不是宣誓的,这些证词说,这些警报很少响起,它们在战后大多数情况下会响起,而且经常响起。
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。
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。