1·The next afternoon Sara spoke to a few of her teammates, two of which I had previously dated.
第二天下午，萨拉和几个队友谈了话，其中两个是我之前约会过的。
2·Steamboats were not only faster but also transported upriver freight for about one-tenth of what it had previously cost on hand-propelled keelboats.
蒸汽船不仅速度更快，往上游运送货物的成本也只有以前手推运货船的十分之一。
3·He stood out in three ways—as a technologist, as a corporate leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal functional gadgets.
他以三种身份脱颖而出——既是一名技术专家，又是一名企业领导人，同时还是一位能让人们对曾经非个性化的实用小玩意着迷的人。
4·He stood out in three ways—as a technologist, as a corporate leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets.
他在三个方面脱颖而出——作为一名技术专家，作为一名企业领导人，作为一个曾经不近人情的“工具人”、如今能够得到人们喜爱的人。
5·The building had previously been used as a hotel.
这座楼房早先曾用作旅馆。
—— 《牛津词典》
6·The evidence given in court was inconsistent with what he had previously told them.
他在法庭上的证词与他当初告诉他们的不一致。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
7·The government had previously been opposed to the demobilization of its 100,000 strong army.
该政府以前曾反对将其10万人的强大部队遣散。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
8·The monkeys used in those experiments had previously been immunized with a vaccine made from killed infected cells.
这些实验中所用的猴子事先都已接种了由死亡的被感染细胞制成的疫苗。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
9·Other researchers had previously modified the bacterium to produce alcohol from organic waste.
其他研究人员此前已经对这种细菌进行了改造，以从有机废物中产生酒精。
10·Indium, for example, had previously been assigned an atomic mass between those of arsenic and selenium.
例如，人们以前认为铟的原子质量介于砷和硒之间。