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It wouldn't be long before he closed a deal with one of the chain stores.

不久，他与其中一家连锁店达成了交易。

Chamber concert The singer's interest in music grew out of listening to the radio, long before she ever went to a .

女歌手对音乐的兴趣是听收音机培养起来的，这远远早于她首次去听音乐会。

These events buffet the edges of Mr Power's memoir, but its centre is filled with the smells and memories of a quixotic boyhood: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coming for afternoon tea long before he became the most famous Jesuit priest of the 20th century, Chinese storytellers reciting ancient serials in the street, market stalls smelling of cabbage stalks, aniseed, garlic, soya and oils, and during a visit to the house of a lone Chinese school friend, the memorable sighting of a line of 12 young girls with bound feet, all of them dressed in bright pink gowns buttoned up to the chin.

这些事情在鲍尔先生回忆录的边角激荡，但全书的中心弥漫着唐吉诃德式童年的气息和记忆：德日进来访喝午茶，很久以后他成为了20世纪最著名的耶稣会牧师；中国的说书人在街头巷尾引述古代长篇故事；市集货摊上散发着甘蓝茎球，八角茴香，大蒜，大豆和油类的味道，以及一次赴宅访友之行中见到的12位缠足姑娘，她们各个豆蔻年华，身着扣至下颚的长袍，粉色亮眼，令人怀想。

Whose judgment seemeth me somewhat like as though men should guess the beauty of one long before departed by her scalp taken out of the charnel house; for now she is old, lean, withered and dried up, nothing left but rivelled skin and hard bone.

我认为这种判断类似把一个死了多年的人从坟墓里挖出头骨，凭这一点来猜想此人过去是否美丽一样，因为她现在当然老了，瘦了，干瘪枯缩了。

He, I know--for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made--thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.

我知道——因为这个问题早在时间机器诞生之前我们就讨论过——他对人类的进步持悲观态度，并且把越积越高的文明看作是愚蠢的堆积，认为它最终必将倒下来压住它的创造者，把他们彻底毁灭。

But long before this , Christiania had started to regain its stature as a centre of commerce and culture in Norway .

但是，长期在此之前，克里斯已开始恢复其地位，作为一个商业中心的文化在挪威。

CIt be not long before...

不久他就回来。

These tendencies, however, were more or less active long before 1789; indeed, they are coeval with the human race.

这些倾向，然而，更多或更少的积极前不久1789年；事实上，他们是coeval与人类。

Not coincidentally, not long before, there is a customer inadvertently played a fire.

不凑巧的是，没过多久，就有一家客户不慎起了大火。

When we got there, it wasn't long before Colin got an idea of what he wanted to do.

当我们得到有，这是不长之前，科林得到一个什么样的想法，他想做的事。

I didn't watch TV last night, because it .

昨晚我没有看电视，因为电视机坏了。

Since this year, in a lot of villages of Beijing, TV of elevator liquid crystal was removed.

今年以来，在北京的很多小区里，电梯液晶电视被撤了下来。