Of these the former are the majority.

这两类人当中，一类人是大多数。

They overwhelmingly assume the former is better value.

绝大多人都以为前者更划算。

So, without further ado, let me introduce my former friend.

废话不多说 我来介绍一下我的前好友。

The former is a scale shift. The latter is a perceptual shift.

前者是转变比例， 後者是改变看法。

And I certainly never thought I'd be sharing a virtual stage with the former president, a first lady, a Lady Gaga and a Queen B, not to mention BTS.

我当然也从来没有想过我会和前总统、一夫人、Lady Gaga和Queen Bey共享一个虚拟的舞台，更不用说BTS了。

2 I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students, fresh from an excursion to Europe. " How was it" ? I asked, full of earnest anticipation.

我觉得我是在最近偶遇我以前的一位学生时，才开始对这个问题认真起来的。这个学生刚从欧洲旅游回来。我满怀着诚挚期待问她：" 欧洲之行如何？"

A few desolate houses stood in the former mining town.

在早期的采矿小镇，立着些荒废的房屋。

I'm John Keener.I'm a former research biochemist and former council member and Mayor of Pacifica.

我是约翰·基纳，我以前是研究生物化学家，前帕西菲卡委员会议员和帕西菲卡市。

The former has to get everyone in, squeeze, squeeze, jostle, nudge. What are the choices?

这个造型得把每个人都包括进来，大家挤来挤去，你推我让。最终的选择会是什么呢？

A judge in New York has agreed to waive drug charges against the former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda following a request from the Trump administration.

在特朗普政府的要求下，纽约一名法官同意免除对墨西哥前国萨尔瓦多·西恩富戈斯·泽佩达的毒品指控。

An executive from the Japanese company made the apology at a ceremony in Los Angeles to 94-year-old James Murphy, a former POW, and the relatives of other one-time prisoners.

日本三菱公司一名管理人员在洛杉矶举行的一个仪式上，向94岁的前二战战俘詹姆士·墨菲以及其他战俘的家人道歉。

Wait, your, your mother is sleeping with your dentist? Former dentist.

你妈和你的牙医上床吗？前牙医。

I'm not gonna stand up here and disparage your former boss.

我不是来贬低你们的前老板的。

So the former disc-shaped galaxy metamorphosizes into a celestial jellyfish sporting long blue tendrils.

因此，以前的圆盘状星系蜕变成了一只着蓝色卷须的水母星系。

But researchers say they have new evidence that they identified CTE in a former Minnesota Vikings linebacker before he died in 2015.

但是研究人员称他们在前明尼苏达海盗队中后卫2015年去世之前确认了病情。

It’s not about making money for this former elementary school teacher.

对于这位前小学教师来说，这并不是为了赚钱。

But Navalny lost to former presidential aid and interim Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

但纳瓦尔尼败给了前总统助手、莫斯科临时市谢尔盖·索比亚宁。

The former motor works is also home to boutique stores, such as Antique Archaeology.

这里也有许多古董精品店，例如古董考古店。

A word from her could make or break you, a former student said.

因为她的一句话可以成就你，也可以毁掉你。”她以前的一个学生说。

The former uses coal, oxygen and steam to produce burnable hydrogen.

以前用煤、氧气和蒸汽生产可燃氢气。