before long

基本解释

The consequence was a year that no one had seen before - 445 days long!
结果导致公元前46年有445天之多，这是人们之前从来没有看见过的。
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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.
此模式允许长时间运行的流程在长时间运行的部分开始前返回句柄或中间结果。
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.
即使不把长途国际旅行计算在内，明年在南非进行的总决赛预计将留下八倍于2006年德国世界杯的碳足迹。

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.
这是可以理解的-,那是1879年之前，雷德克利夫学院还没成立，远在哈佛成为男女合校之前。
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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.
当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。
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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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