before one knows it

常见例句

No one knows were it originated before it was picked up by those vulgar Latin speaking pre-Frenchmen.
在它被那些說通俗拉丁語的古法國人使用之前，沒人知道這個詞是哪裡來的。
No one really knows where fuffle came from before that but the thinking is that it’s imitative; it’s reminiscent of ruffle.
沒有人確切地知道fuffle在此之前的出処，但人們認爲fuffle是一個模倣詞，它模倣的是ruffle。
So what is an innovator's approach when no one knows for sure what customers will do with an innovation because they haven't seen it before?
因此，一位創新者的方法就是儅沒有人確切知道客戶將做什麽時他做了，因爲他們不能到未來去看看。

Navin, co-founder of Bit Torrent, is one of those guys who starts building the future before the average consumer even knows it can exist.
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