long time before

基本解釋

It has taken a long time before Christ consciousness could set foot on earth.
基督意識能在地球上落地生根之前，需要很長一段時間。
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So a long time before quantum mechanics was developed, people made measurements of the heat capacities of materials.
那麼在量子力學(xué)建立起來,之前的很長一段時間，人們測量,物質(zhì)的熱容。
It's going to be a long time before we fully understand the implications of open source for the broader economy, but so far, it's been very good for just about everybody.
雖然在我們完全了解開源對於更廣泛經(jīng)濟的影響以前這將是一個漫長的過程，但是迄今爲(wèi)止幾乎對每個人來說都很好。

Some doctors work a long time in hospitals before they are fully trained in a specialty.
It's still--they can make losses for a long time before they're in trouble, so presumably there won't be a problem, but in principle there could be and so that's the kind of issue that we have now.
在陷入睏境之前的很長一段時間內(nèi),他們可以承受虧損,也可以假設(shè)不會有任何問題發(fā)生,但是原則上講是有可能會出問題的,這就是我們麪臨的現(xiàn)狀
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I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.
我本想說第一次嘗試時，但即便是脩行多年的人,也會走神十分鍾之久,方才意識到自己剛做了白日夢。
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It will be a long time before people feel truly bullish about the economy.
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