Look at these old typewriter ads. Or these early typists.

这些从前的打字机广告，或者这些以前的打字员。

I was consciously encouraging the man who over the years had encouraged me.

我有意识地鼓励着这个从前鼓励过我的男人。

One man can now process 50 times more cotton.

一个工人现在能加工比从前多50倍的棉花。

And you can't bring back the forests that once grew where there is now desert.

您也不能把沙漠中从前完整的森林带回来。

Charley's attentions to his former mistress were unbounded.

查利对从前的这位情人的照料可谓微不至。

It really gives you a sense of kind of stepping back in time.

这里真的会让你有一种恍如隔世回到从前的感觉。

What has happened to our previous animation and gladness?

我们从前的活力和快乐发生了什么？

And we must ask no questions about the past, no questions at all.

我们绝对不可以问起从前的事，一点都不能问。

I wanted to understand scale in a way that I hadn't before.

我想用一种我从前没法做到的方式去理解规模。

You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.

你忘了，我从前是学医的。

Celia was always mourning for the good old time her son missed.

西莉亚总痛惜她儿子没过上从前的好日子。

And I like to always refer to what people used to do.

我总是喜欢参照人们从前做的事。

You must have gone to church once.

你从前一定做过礼拜的。

Most people are born with eyes that are too short from front to back.

大多数人的眼睛从前到后距离都很短。

The dictum in writing classes used to be “write what you know.”

从前写作课上的箴言是“写你了解的”。

And that's how it is with " Once upon a time" .

" 从前" 的情形恰恰就是这样。

Second, litigation may no longer be quite the deterrent it once was.

二，诉讼可能不再像从前一样具有相当的威慑力。

They were both, in fact, the ashes of their former fires.

实际上，他们俩都是他们从前火焰的灰烬。

This is a story of how former enemies became scientific allies.

这是一个从前的敌人变成科学盟友的故事。

13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.

13 他们把从前瞎眼的人、带到法利赛人那里。