从前

So I drew for him one of the two pictures I had drawn so often. It was that of the boa constrictor from the outside.

不过，我还是画了自己从前两张画中的其中一幅给他这一幅画就是看不见大蟒蛇里面的那张画。

THERE was a boy in India who was set by his parents to a boarding school.

从前，在印度有一个男孩被他的父母安置在一所寄宿学校里。

2" Spot shirring on lower front bodice 3" from center front.

这句话从前中3"处有2"宽的碎褶，但我想象不出是什么样的。

Obviously she had been that way before, for she dodged the boggy bits as though by habit

很明显，她从前曾经到过这儿，躲泥坑的动作熟得很，简直是习惯成自然。

Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was.

伯恩只有一个目标：回到从前，找出自己的真实身份。

People used to believe that monsters lived in the bowels of the earth.

从前人们相信怪兽是生活在地球深处的。

A triangular sail stretching from the foretopmast head to the jib boom and in small craft to the bowsprit or the bow.

船首三角帆一面从前桅的中段展开至下桁的三角形帆，在小艇上则展开至第一斜桅或艇首

I've been coaching long enough to brazenly promise that if you decide to reclaim the essence of anything you regret losing, you'll find it—often sooner than you think, in ways you would never have expected.

长期的辅导让我能大胆地保证如果你下决定去重新获得了失去任何中的遗憾的本质，那么你就一定能找到它--比你认为的要快、也许是你从前更不没想过的方式。

The savage who, on his South Sea island, simply sat and let breadfruit fall into his lap , the simple peasant, at one with the fields he ploughed and the beasts he tended, the craftsman busy with his tools and lost in the fulfillment of the instinct of workmanship-these are the counter-images conjured up by descriptions of the strain under which men live today.

过去，生活在南海诸岛上的原始人只是坐在地上，等着让面包果从树上掉到他们的怀里；从前，淳朴的农民悠闲地耕着地，照看着牲畜；忙于操弄工具的工匠沉浸于本能的技艺展示。这些都和对生活在压力之下的现代人描述形成反差。

And then he thought, also, without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of a convict named brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton

同时他不知道为什么，会带着梦想中那种机械的顽固性，想到他从前在监狱里认识他一个叫布莱卫的囚犯，那人的裤子只用一根棉织的背带吊住。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。