John Wesley Powell was a geologist and a scientist and his thinking was centuries before his time.

约翰·韦斯利·鲍威尔是一位地质学家和科学家，他的思想比他那个时代超前了几个世纪。

Millennia before his time, Plato also reasoned that women were equally able to rule in this model city.

在柏拉图时代的几千年前，柏拉图也推测女性也有统治这样城市的平等权利。

They all died before his time, maybe.

也许他们都在他的时代之前就死了。

A man should be only partially before his time—to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame.

如果一个人在志向上完全处于超先地位，对他的名声是个致命伤。

But young Mr. Bennett is before his time if that is his ring.

但是如果那是他的时间的话， 年轻的贝内特先生还未到他的时代。 戒指。

He seemed to grow into an old man before his time.

【time】他似乎过早地变成一位老人了。

I'd have had every one of them up and punished for it, that left his work before his time was out'.

我会把他们中的每一个人都起来并为此受到惩罚， 在他的时间结束之前就离开了他的工作'。

Human beings had lived on the island off and on for thousands of years before his time, but they disappeared during periodic ice ages.

人类在岛上断断续续地生活了几千年，但是却在周期性的冰河时代消失了。

It had, perhaps, even long before his time, acquired that full complement of riches which the nature of its laws and institutions permits it to acquire.

也许，甚至在他的时代之前很久，它就已经获得了其法律和制度的性质允许它获得的全部财富。

A young person can stand it; but an old man gets racked with rheumatism, and bent and withered before his time; yet he must just work on the same, or else go to the workhouse'.

年轻人受得了； 但是一个老人被风湿病折磨着， 在他的时间到来之前就弯腰枯萎了。 但他必须做同样的工作， 否则就去济贫院。

Of course, it was fifty years ago, so it was before his time, but he knows all about it, and he says that it was all kept quiet and it'll look suspicious if I know too much about it.

当然啦，那是五十年前的事了，他还没有出生，但是他什么都知道。他说这一切都是保密的，如果我知道得太多，就会显得很可疑。