before christ

基本解釋

It has taken a long time before Christ consciousness could set foot on earth.
基督意識能在地球上落地生根之前，需要很長一段時間。
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It may be noted that ceremonies in honour of Cybele began some 250 years before Christ was born.
可以指出，在榮譽(yù)之母的儀式開始于公元前250年出生。
The Last Supper, one of the most famous and valuable paintings in the world, depicts the meal shortly before Christ's death when he announced to his disciples that one of them would betray him.
作為世界上最著名和最值錢的畫之一，“最后的晚餐”描繪了基督死前的晚餐的情景：基督對著眾門徒宣布他們當(dāng)中有一人將要出賣他。

We in religious studies tend to like these terms, AD rather than BC, Before Christ, and AD, because AD actually stands for Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.
在宗教研究中我們喜歡用這兩個術(shù)語，而不用BC，即“基督前“和，因為AD其實是Anno，Domini的縮寫，即“主的年份“
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Milton wants to arrive in Bethlehem to hand Christ his poem before the wise men are able to bring their gold and their frankincense and their myrrh.
他想到達(dá)伯利恒把他的詩歌親手交給基督,在術(shù)士們拿走他們的黃金,乳香精油和沒藥樹之前。
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Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.
在公元前幾百年,荷馬這樣描述奧德賽的幾個同伴的命運,一個女巫將他們變成了豬
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He shows how easily Christian millennialism declines into anti-Semitism (before Christ's second coming, the Jews must convert).
ECONOMIST: The other millennium bug