从前的

Then they all agreed that they each would draw a snake on the ground and the one who first finished drawing would be gi

故事大意：从前，有3个人得到一壶酒。他们决定在地上画蛇，先画好的人就喝这壶酒。

Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

埃及遍地必有大哀号；从前没有这样的，后来也必没有。

Later, I learned that many of them were sick with hangovers of varying degrees of acuteness.

后来我才搞清楚，原来他们很多人都还没有从前一晚的酒意中清醒过来。

Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his doorsteps and empty hogsheads.

连赤手大盗费恩都在缅怀他从前睡觉的台阶和那些大空桶。

Rita came to the hospital in a 7crisp white 8salwar kameez, looking as gorgeous as ever.

丽塔穿着一身亮丽的白色纱丽克米兹去到医院，她看上去像从前一样美艳动人。

There used to be a lot of manatees.

从前有大量的海牛。

"The situation today is different. We now have several new media to consider and contend with, e. g., microforms, audio tapes and disc, visual aids: films, film-strips and video, videotext, and online."

今天的状况与从前大不相同，多种媒体并存和相互竞争：缩微印刷品，听力磁带和磁盘、电影、幻灯片、录像带、录像文字和电脑刊物等可视媒体。

Her childhood produced upon her the effect of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, and serpents.

她仿佛觉得她从前生活在一个黑洞里，是冉阿让把她从那洞里救出来的。

Most of them must have been political prisoners or mutineers who refused to give up the old reins of the Terran Confederacy.

这些人大多数应该都是不愿意离开从前 Terran 联邦的政治犯或者反抗者吧。

Since the pre-Roman period, a fortified settlement has existed on the hill where Carcassonne now stands.

&&从前罗马时期起，卡尔卡松现在所在的山上就有了防御性聚落。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷