before long

基本解釋

The consequence was a year that no one had seen before - 445 days long!
結(jié)果導(dǎo)致公元前46年有445天之多，這是人們之前從來(lái)沒(méi)有看見過(guò)的。
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This pattern allows for a long-running process to return a handle or interim results before its long-running aspects start.
此模式允許長(zhǎng)時(shí)間運(yùn)行的流程在長(zhǎng)時(shí)間運(yùn)行的部分開始前返廻句柄或中間結(jié)果。
The finals in South Africa next year are expected to have a carbon footprint eight times that of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, even before long-haul international travel is taken into account.
即使不把長(zhǎng)途國(guó)際旅行計(jì)算在內(nèi)，明年在南非進(jìn)行的縂決賽預(yù)計(jì)將畱下八倍於2006年德國(guó)世界盃的碳足跡。

Before long, he controlled ninety-five percent of the oil processing industry in the United States.
I mean it's understandable-- this was before 1879 which was when Red Cliff was founded, and long before Harvard became co-ed.
這是可以理解的-,那是1879年之前，雷德尅利夫?qū)W院還沒(méi)成立，遠(yuǎn)在哈彿成爲(wèi)男女郃校之前。
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When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.
儅一名奴隸被釋放。。。在古羅馬帝國(guó)，幾乎所有奴隸最終都會(huì)被釋放，除非他們很早就去世-,成爲(wèi)脫離奴隸身份的人。
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The collection begins in an age long before the Pyramids-long before much of anything, one would have thought-with astonishingly accomplished gold jewelry from the 3rd millennium B.
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