Blank Space, 'cause I've written a lot of the lines down already in the year preceding the session.

《Blank Space》。因为我在正式写歌一年前就已经有了很多关于歌词想法了。

How does it differ from the preceding one that we were listening to?

这个和我们之前听那一个有什么不同？

The weeks preceding the fires in the Midwest had been frighteningly dry.

在中西部地区发生火灾前几周，天气异常干燥。

The preceding Palaeocene epoch was also brought to an end, the rocks suggest, by a sudden release of methane.

岩石层研究表明甲烷突然释放导致了之前古新世时期结束。

This music for reflection upon a preceding religious theme was generally melismatic.

这样能使思考宗教主题圣歌通常是花腔式。

Opinion polls preceding the Israeli election scheduled for November 1st show no clear favourite.

以色列大选（定于11月1日举行）之前民意调查显示，没有明确热门选。

As with preceding years, 2019 has seen climate records broken with startling results.

与前几年一样，2019年气候打破了记录，结果令吃惊。

His bright humour marked the reaction from his black depression of the preceding days.

所以说起来滔滔不绝，把这几天郁闷也一扫而光了。

With a reluctant backward glance the well-disciplined child held to her nurse's hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.

很懂规矩小孩依依不舍地回头看了一眼，抓着保姆手，就被拉到门外去，正好汤姆回来，后面跟着四杯杜松子利克酒，里面装满了冰块喀嚓作响。

The approbation which it announces of my conduct in the preceding term affords me a consolation which I shall profoundly feel through life.

对我上一任期赞许让我欣慰并终身难以忘怀。

ALFRED NOBEL ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO GIVE AWARDS FOR WORK FROM THE PRECEDING YEAR.

阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔最初打算为前一年成果颁奖。

Rarely does anyone start there, the kind of life where we try to be in bed by ten and are intensely grateful when nothing has gone dramatically wrong in the preceding hours.

很少有年轻时，就选择10点前入睡，更不可能会因为生活没有遇到令抓而谢天谢地。

But over the preceding millennia, the glaciers were treated and the oceans rose and the Andaman Islands became the islands we know them as today, with thousands of Paleolithic hunter-gatherer tribes people remaining trapped on them.

但在去几千年里，冰川消融，海平面上升，安达曼群岛变成了我们今天所知岛屿，成千上万旧石器时代狩猎采集部落仍然被困在岛上。

Easter was approaching, and the week preceding it was to bring an addition to the family at Rosings, which in so small a circle must be important.

复活节快到了，节前一星期，罗新斯府上要添一个客。在这么一个小圈子里，这当然是件大。

Writing in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty years.

在去世最后一年，他写道在去二三十年中，他思想发生了变化。

By observing and studying the second-generation star, the researchers will be able to infer the mass and characteristics of its preceding generation of stars, said Xing Qianfan, a deputy researcher from National Astronomical Observatory of China.

中国国家天文台副研究员邢千帆说，通观察和研究第二代恒星，研究员将能够推断出其上一代恒星质量和特征。

That's particularly the case this year because there have been two wet winters in a row — the preceding winters — so there was a lot of water to fuel a lot of vegetation growth.

今年尤其如此，因为去年和前年冬季连续是湿润冬季——因此有大量水分促进了植被生长。

As to the ages affected, we had already been aware for the -- for the decade preceding this pandemic that we have a problem in this country of rising death rates in the working-age population.

至于受影响年龄，在这次疫情爆发前十年，我们已经意识到我们国家面临着劳动年龄口死亡率上升问题。

The Crofts were to have possession at Michaelmas; and as Sir Walter proposed removing to Bath in the course of the preceding month, there was no time to be lost in making every dependent arrangement.

克罗夫特夫妇定于米迦勒节 那天住进凯林奇大厦。 由于沃尔特爵士提议在前一个月搬到巴思，大家只好抓紧时间做好一切准备工作。

The steepest recession on the American mainland, a plague of H1N1 swine flu and a deepening war against organised crime had made the preceding few years fairly grim.

除了美洲大陆上经济最为不佳之外，墨西哥还遭受H1N1猪流感和缉毒战争洗礼，其前途一片黯淡。