before long

基本解釋

The consequence was a year that no one had seen before - 445 days long!
結果導致公元前46年有445天之多，這是人們之前從來沒有看見過的。
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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.
此模式允許長時間運行的流程在長時間運行的部分開始前返回句柄或中間結果。
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.
即使不把長途國際旅行計算在內(nèi)，明年在南非進行的總決賽預計將留下八倍于2006年德國世界杯的碳足跡。

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，雷德克利夫?qū)W院還沒成立，遠在哈佛成為男女合校之前。
哈佛公開課 - 幸福課課程節(jié)選
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.
當一名奴隸被釋放。。。在古羅馬帝國，幾乎所有奴隸最終都會被釋放，除非他們很早就去世-,成為脫離奴隸身份的人。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選

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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