Why'd you kill those guys who lived here before us?

为什么你杀了先前住在这里的那俩家伙？

SOMETHING is used when the earlier noun is not exactly what the speaker meant.

SOMETHING 是在先前的名词与本意不完全一致时使用的。

But we did hear that he pointed to previous statements where he said, if a city can't control its outbreak the state will step in.

但是我们确实听过州长在先前的声明中指出，如果城市无法控制疫情，州政府将会介入。

Dumbledore had stopped walking, level with the church they had passed earlier.

邓布利多已经停下脚步，站在与他们先前经过的那座教堂平行的地方。

What happened here has happened before in Paris, and to Moscow.

这里的事情先前在巴黎，莫斯科也曾有过。

On a previous trip to Europe in 1950, he'd done the grand tour.

在先前1950年的那次欧洲之中，他游遍了欧洲。

If the robot appears with the left lever already pulled down, or if an individual has previously pulled the left lever down at any point in the past, then they should move the right lever.

若机器人出现时左控制杆已拉到 B，或某人已在先前某时把左控制杆拉到 B 位置，这时，他们应该移动右控制杆的位置。

A possible interpretation of this is that he represents the antichrist as bosch has previously painted this saw on the leg of a figure in this painting, identified as the Jewish antichrist.

一种可能的解释是，他代表了反基督，就像博斯先前在这幅画中画了一个人的腿的锯，被认为是犹太人的反基督。

When she reached the corner of the enclosure, where the steps were formed for mounting the boundary bank, she sprang up with a lightness which seemed strange after her listless movement towards the well.

她走到围里面的角落，那儿砌有往去的台阶，先前在井边时她的动作倦怠无力，可这会儿登的动作却轻盈得出奇。

Uh, listen, Penny, before you start, I just want to apologize for being so rude the other day in my office. No, no. No need to apologize.

听着，Penny，在你讲前，我想为先前在办公室里我对你的粗鲁道歉。不不，不用道歉。

In my previous examples I spelt it two ways to show: Yes, this is possible, and this is also possible; depends on your preference.

在我先前的例子里，我用两种方式来表明：是的，这样是可以的，这样也是可以的，随你的喜好。

Moreover, he knew he was the first Commander in Chief not to have previously served in government or the military.

并且，他也知道他是第一个先前没有在政府或军队服过役的总统。

This is a transformation that is applied to the previous and the next frame to produce the intermediate image.

这是一种在先前和后续的画面中被用以制作中间画面的转换。

Whether they were related to the former builders of Mycenae nobody knows for sure, but it is likely.

他们是否与先前在希腊居住过并建造了迈锡尼的部族有血亲关系，这一点人们并不确切知道，但是这是极有可能的。

The 1789 law, the Alien Enemies Act, was previously only used when the U.S. was at war.

该法案是1798年出台的《外国敌人法》，先前仅在战时实施。

Concrete pillars for highway bridges that previously only had steel rods inside are now enclosed in steel.

高架桥的水泥柱先前只是在内部有钢筋，如今外面也包了钢板。

He understood, said nothing, we laughed.

他在逗我。和先前一样，我保持微笑。他都懂，也不什么，于是我们笑了起来。

Had the reddleman been watching he might have recognized her as the woman who had first stood there so singularly, and vanished at the approach of strangers.

要是那个红贩子一直在留神观望的，他就会认出这就是那个先前在冢顶茕茕孑立、见到有人走近便消失了的那个女人。

His head was sunk in his shoulders, the earlier relaxed expression replaced by a veil.

他的头埋在肩，先前放松的表情被面纱所取代。

After investigating previous outbreaks, he became convinced that cholera was spread through contaminated water sources.

在调查了先前的疫情后，他确信霍乱是通过受污染的水源传播的。