A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
之前
Before
There are other things we have to find before we find each other.
在我们找到彼此之前，我们还必须找到其他的东西。
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。
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
我要想上三、四十年才能写出来。
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。你必须先付出，才能得到。
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
我有我的私人生活——那是神圣的——我以前没有过。
You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
你只能把花瓶修这么多次，然后才能把它扔掉。
I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
我冒昧地预言，摆在我们面前的将是一个痛苦而邪恶的时代。
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
在阿拉曼之前，我们从未取得过胜利。自从阿拉曼之后，我们从未失败过。
But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.
但是在我决定做什么之前，我的脑子里有一个想法。
I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.
我得先写歌，免得自己太迷恋自己的旋律。
I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.
我只是得到了和以前一样的东西，但是价格要高得多。
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
我在寻找意想不到的东西。我在寻找我从未见过的东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
It's always darkest before the dawn
黎明前总是最黑暗的
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
我看到了以前从未见过的东西。艺术是对创作时间的准确描述。
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
今晚，我要感谢所有与我分享工作的人，感谢我的妻子，她鼓励我把研究放在一切事情之前，这对我来说是巨大的力量。
There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.
当你骑摩托车或者跳伞的时候，你很有可能会掉下去，但那发生在我得到这份工作之前，从那以后我就再也没有跳伞了。