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，頒佈這項禁令歷經(jīng)了如此久的時間，但是在此之前這竝不是一個大問題。
Why hasn't anyone else done it before now?
爲(wèi)什麼之前就沒有人這麼做哪？

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,你可以更正成勣。
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Mr. DANIEL SHAMASH: (Through translator) Before now there were all Christians, no Muslims at all.
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