从前

That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep

当我们已经在新的生活轨道里渐渐生出了习惯，有时候，也难免在不经意间在镜子里照见了从前的影子。

I am not sure that I ever heard the sound of cock-crowing from my clearing, and I thought that it might be worth the while to keep a cockerel for his music merely, as a singing bird. The note of this once wild Indian pheasant is certainly the most remarkable of any bird's, and if they could be naturalized without being domesticated, it would soon become the most famous sound in our woods, surpassing the clangor of the goose and the hooting of the owl; and then imagine the cackling of the hens to fill the pauses when their lords' clarions rested!

我不清楚在林中空地上，我听过金鸡报晓没有，我觉得养一只小公鸡很有道理，只是把它当作鸣禽看待，为了听它的音乐公鸡从前是印第安野鸡，它的音乐确是所有禽帼之中最了不起的，如果能不把它们变为家禽而加以驯化的话，它的音乐可以立刻成为我们的森林中最著名的音乐，胜过鹅的叫声，猫头鹰的嚎哭；然后，你再想想老母鸡，在她们的夫君停下了号角声之后，她们的噪聒填满了停顿的时刻！

He always went to the bar and night club once upon a time.

他从前常去镇上的酒吧和夜总会。

I shall go to London, and my old landlady, Mrs Inger, 17 Coburg Square, will either give me a room or will find one for me.

我将到伦敦我从前的房东英格太太那里去，她住在高堡广场十七号，她将绘我一个房子，或替我找过房子的。

Scrap is a sad human being, he sees himself as the result of missed opportunities in the past, and so he spends his time helping the others, offering them his wise advice, with a tone of deadpan humor and even cockiness.

小块是哀伤的人，他看见自己由于被错过的机会从前，和因此他花费他的时间帮助其他，提供他们他明智的忠告，以deadpan 幽默和甚而自大口气。

This thing was the remains of his old-time cocksureness and independence.

这是他从前的过于自信和独立精神残留在他身上的东西。

If you want to die and leave me with the same coldness as always , go right ahead.

如果你想死，想象从前一样冷冰冰地离开我，那随你的便吧。

I used to collect stamps, but now I do it no more.

我从前集邮，但现在不集了。

On the other hand, a growth in some parts in the numbers of the coloni, and in other parts of the declassed freemen (like the "poor whites" in the ex-slave states of America).

另一方面，隶农和贫困化的自由人（类似美国从前各蓄奴州的poor whites）的数目也日益增多。

Conveniences that we never thought about come to us in a second.

很多从前没有想到或者不敢想象的各种便利一下子涌到了我们的面前。

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。