long time before

基本解释

It has taken a long time before Christ consciousness could set foot on earth.
基督意識能在地球上落地生根之前，需要很長一段時間。
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So a long time before quantum mechanics was developed, people made measurements of the heat capacities of materials.
那麽在量子力學建立起來,之前的很長一段時間，人們測量,物質的熱容。
It's going to be a long time before we fully understand the implications of open source for the broader economy, but so far, it's been very good for just about everybody.
雖然在我們完全了解開源對於更廣泛經濟的影響以前這將是一個漫長的過程，但是迄今爲止幾乎對每個人來說都很好。

Some doctors work a long time in hospitals before they are fully trained in a specialty.
It's still--they can make losses for a long time before they're in trouble, so presumably there won't be a problem, but in principle there could be and so that's the kind of issue that we have now.
在陷入睏境之前的很長一段時間內,他們可以承受虧損,也可以假設不會有任何問題發生,但是原則上講是有可能會出問題的,這就是我們麪臨的現狀
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I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.
我本想說第一次嘗試時，但即便是脩行多年的人,也會走神十分鍾之久,方才意識到自己剛做了白日夢。
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It will be a long time before people feel truly bullish about the economy.
ECONOMIST: The economy