A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
之前
Before
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
一个人必须成为大人物才能有敌人。一个人必须成为一种力量，才能被另一种力量所抵抗。
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
我重新成为一名业余爱好者，没有任何束缚，也没有任何附加条件，这给了我以前从未有过的自由。
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
恐怕我们必须使世界诚实，然后才能诚实地对我们的孩子说，诚实是最好的政策。
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
当你重读一本经典著作时，你在书中看到的并不比以前多;你比以前看到了更多。
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
每个主要的食品公司现在都有一个有机部门。有机农业得到的资金比以往任何时候都多。
I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.
我就是我。以前我对时尚并不那么自豪。我的家人认为时尚不是很有趣。所以我把它藏起来了。
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
跳舞对女孩子来说是一种很好的训练，这是你学会在男人做之前猜测他要做什么的第一种方法。
Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.
每个人都说，在评论出来之前，‘哦，评论不重要’，只是以防它们是坏的;每个人都想做好准备。
Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.
凯蒂威特。她是最终的竞争者。她在比赛前总是看人不顺眼。她在冰上毫不留情。
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
利用好你的健康，甚至把它消耗殆尽。这就是它的作用。在你死之前花光你所有的;不要活得太久。
A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
很多人在即将成功之前就放弃了。你永远不知道下一个障碍何时会成为最后一个。
Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.
是的，这当然是真的，但你知道，讽刺的是，在事故发生之前，我对打鼓几乎失去了兴趣。
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。
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。
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?
Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
你的未来还在前方。你们的土地是一个巨大的矿藏和农业财富仓库，等待着为人类的利益进一步发展。它的潜力是巨大的。
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 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。