before now

基本解釋

The world needs to wake up to this message more than ever before now.
現(xiàn)在，世界需要比從前更意識(shí)到這句話的重要性。
It’s hard to believe that it’s taken so long, but it wasn't a big issue before now.
難以置信的是，頒布這項(xiàng)禁令歷經(jīng)了如此久的時(shí)間，但是在此之前這并不是一個(gè)大問題。
Why hasn't anyone else done it before now?
為什么之前就沒有人這么做哪？

Now he would have to deal with the problems that presidents before him had not been able to solve.
Now you also may remember that we have already run into Spenser's Mammon before this point, before Paradise Lost.
現(xiàn)在你們可能也記得我們已經(jīng),在遇到《失樂園》之前就與斯潘塞的貪欲之神相遇了。
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In fact, you could be sitting three years from now waiting before commencement and you can get that grade adjusted.
實(shí)際上，你可以從現(xiàn)在到知道畢業(yè)典禮前,一直坐等三年,你可以更正成績。
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Mr. DANIEL SHAMASH: (Through translator) Before now there were all Christians, no Muslims at all.
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