先前

Previously Ergon Energy had selected suppliers on a project by project basis, but the benefits and savings of contracting a single vendor and single switchgear platform were too compelling to ignore.

先前，Ergon Energy公司是一个项目选择一家供应商，但与固定一家供应商签订合同以及相同开关柜平台所带来利益和节省也太明显，让人无法忽略。

In former times there was a shop here, but it has been pulled down now.

先前，这儿有一家商店，但现在已经拆掉了。

Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bidding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.

先前，他曾点头答应，让我在荡劫墙垣精固的伊利昂后启程返航。现在，我才知道，这是一场赤裸裸的欺骗。他要我不光不彩地返回阿耳戈斯，折损了众多的兵将。这便是力大无穷的宙斯的作为，使他心花怒放的事情

Prevenient grace – creates in us a purpose of obedience.

先前 的恩典–在我们里面创造顺服神的心志。

Before, down by the lake, when I was with Sirius...

先前，在湖边，我和小天狼星在一起的时候。。。

The Emim dwelt there before that, a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim

2：10 先前，有以米人住在那里，这民强大众多，身量高大，像亚衲人一样

Previously, all Iowan sex offenders who had abused children were barred from living within 2,000 feet of a school or child-care centre.

先前，该州所有有过猥亵儿童行为的性罪犯的居住地必须距离学校和幼儿园2，000英尺以外。

Historically, the pretransplant T-cell crossmatch and antibody screening were done by anti-human globulin-complement-dependent cytotoxicity.

先前，采用抗人球蛋白补体依赖的细胞毒性试验进行移植前T细胞交叉配型以及抗体屏蔽。

Worth its weight in gold .Formerly, a book is worth its weight in silver, if not in gold .

先前，一本书如果不用黄金来衡量的话，与相同重量的白银价值相当。

Before, one or two hoys still came to beat down the dates other people had hissed. But now not one date is left, and the trees have lost all their eaves as well.

先前，还有一两个孩子来打他们别人打剩的枣子，现在是一个也不剩了，连叶子也落尽了。

As of Tuesday, Google's results were still censored in China.

截至周二，谷歌的搜索结果仍受中国审查。

In order to make the positive action increase and negative one decrease, the sub-forces of the social factors must be adjusted to form a centripetal force.

在这一过程中，人的主体性发挥是社会有机体健康发展的灵魂。