从前

From the time when our caveman ancestors gnawed their wild pig bones in front of their smoking fire to our own days when we sit around a table spread with snowy linen and shining silver, we have the history of the change in eating habits from the simple satisfaction of hunger to the meal as a delightful

从前我们穴居的祖先在烟雾弥漫的篝火前啃咬野猪骨头，其目的只是为了充饥裹腹。今天，我们围坐在铺着雪白桌布，摆着明亮银餐具的餐桌周围进餐，吃饭已变成了一种相当复杂、但又令人愉快的社会习俗。

From the time when our caveman ancestors gnawed their wild pig bones in front of their smoking fire to our own days when we sit around a table spread with snowy linen and shining silver, we have the history of the change in eating habits from the simple satisfaction of hunger to the meal as a delightful, if rather complex, social institution.

从前我们穴居的祖先在烟雾弥漫的篝火前啃咬野猪骨头，其目的只是为了充饥裹腹。今天，我们围坐在铺着雪白桌布，摆着明亮银餐具的餐桌周围进餐，吃饭已变成了一种相当复杂、但又令人愉快的社会习俗。这就是我们饮食习惯变革的历史。

I regret the time when I saw bonaparte and Talma enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm.

我真留恋我从前看见波拿巴和塔尔马手挽手同赴蛮舞会的那个时代。

Certainly stars have lived unhappy lives in the spotlight before, but never before have there been so many celebrity TV shows, so many gossip magazines, so many websites to tantalise, so many tabloid pages to fill with details of their lives.

纵然以前的明星们在聚光灯下也过着不快乐的生活，但从前未曾有过那么多明星电视节目，那么多小道杂志，那么多惹是生非的网站，那么多充斥着他们私生活细节的小报。

After years of concerns, the tattooing industry has cleaned up its image.

目前，纹身产业的形象较之从前已有很大改观。

The government decided to levy a tax on tobacco; it had been free from tax.

政府决定对烟草征税，从前这是免税的。

We cannot afford to let their votes and their voices sink and not be heard just because of a formal technicality in the electoral process.

我们不能让从前的老规矩使得他们的投票和声音在选举中都被压下去了，听不到了。

With the quick development of tecnology and society, every one suffers more pleasure from various aspects.

随着知识社会的快速发展，每个人都从前享受到更多方面的快乐。

I used to be when I was a teenager.

从前，当我十几岁。

There used to be an old temple there.

他已不是从前的他的。

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。