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before
[bɪˈfɔː(r)] [bɪˈfɔːr]

  • prep. (时间上)在……之前,早于;在(某个钟点)之前;(次序)在……之前;当面,在……面前;由……考虑中;面对(法院,法庭或其他官方机构)并受审;比……更重要;(位置)在……前面;(未来将发生的事)等待着,面临着;(宁可……而)不愿……;在……影响下,在……威慑下
  • conj. 在……以前;到……为止;以免,不然;(先)……才……;(宁可……而)不愿
  • adv. 以前,过去;在(某时间或某事)以前;在前面

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短语

be fore long 不久

discussing be-fore lesson 课前讨论

fore love should be forever 前应永远的爱

be to the fore 在前面

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before [ bi'fɔ: ]

  • adv.
    • earlier in time; previously

      "I had known her before"; "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"

      同义词: earlier

    • at or in the front

      "with the cross of Jesus marching on before"

      同义词: ahead in front

以上来源于: WordNet

 柯林斯英汉双解大词典 

before /bɪˈfɔː/ CET4 TEM4

  • 1. 

    PREP If something happens before a particular date, time, or event, it happens earlier than that date, time, or event. 在 (某日、某时、某事件) 以前

    例:

    Annie was born a few weeks before Christmas.

    安妮在圣诞节前几个礼拜出生。

    例:

    Before World War II, women were not recruited as intelligence officers.

    二战前,女性不被征募为情报官。

  • 2. 

    CONJ Before is also a conjunction. 在 (某日、某时、某事件) 以前

    例:

    Stock prices have climbed close to the peak they'd registered before the stock market crashed in 1987.

    股票价格已经快爬升到了1987年股市崩溃前的最高纪录。

  • 3. 

    PREP If you do one thing before doing something else, you do it earlier than the other thing. 在 (做某事) 之前 [PREP -ing]

    例:

    He spent his early life in Sri Lanka before moving to Canada.

    移居加拿大前,他早年生活在斯里兰卡。

  • 4. 

    CONJ Before is also a conjunction. 在 (做某事) 之前

    例:

    He took a cold shower and then towelled off before he put on fresh clothes.

    他穿上干净衣服之前,冲了个冷水澡,再擦干身子。

  • 5. 

    ADV You use before when you are talking about time. For example, if something happened the day before a particular date or event, it happened during the previous day. (某时、某事) 以前 [n ADV]

    例:

    The war had ended only a month or so before.

    战争大约在一个月前才结束。

  • 6. 

    PREP Before is also a preposition. (某时、某事) 以前 [n PREP n]

    例:

    It's interesting that he sent me the book twenty days before the deadline for my book.

    有趣的是,在距离我书的截止日期20天前他把那本书寄给了我。

  • 7. 

    CONJ Before is also a conjunction. (某时、某事) 以前

    例:

    Kelman had a book published in the U.S. more than a decade before a British publisher would touch him.

    科尔曼在美国已经出版了一本书,十多年后英国的出版商才愿意出版他的作品。

  • 8. 

    CONJ If you do something before someone else can do something, you do it when they have not yet done it. 在 (某人能做某事) 之前

    例:

    Before Gallacher could catch up with the ball, Nadlovu had beaten him to it.

    在加拉赫能接住球之前,纳德洛夫就已经比他先接到了。

  • 9. 

    ADV If someone has done something before, they have done it on a previous occasion. If someone has not done something before, they have never done it. 以前 (做过某事) [ADV after v]

    例:

    I've been here before.

    我以前来过这儿。

    例:

    I had met Professor Lown before.

    我以前见过劳恩教授。

  • 10. 

    CONJ If there is a period of time or if several things are done before something happens, it takes that amount of time or effort for this thing to happen. 经过 (一段时间或努力) 才

    例:

    It was some time before the door opened in response to his ring.

    他按过门铃后好一会儿门才打开。

  • 11. 

    CONJ If a particular situation has to happen before something else happens, this situation must happen or exist in order for the other thing to happen. 在 (某事发生) 之前 (另一情况必须发生)

    例:

    There was additional work to be done before all the troops would be ready.

    在全军准备就绪之前还有些事情要做。

  • 12. 

    PREP If someone is before something, they are in front of it. 在 (某物) 前面 [正式]

    例:

    They drove through a tall iron gate and stopped before a large white villa.

    他们开车穿过一扇高高的铁门,然后停在了一幢白色大别墅前。

  • 13. 

    PREP If you tell someone that one place is a certain distance before another, you mean that they will come to the first place first. 在 (某地) 前方 (某距离处)

    例:

    The station is on the right, one mile before downtown Romney.

    车站在右侧,罗姆尼市中心前方一英里处。

  • 14. 

    PREP If you appear or come before an official person or group, you go there and answer questions. 在 (人或组织) 面前 (回答提问)

    例:

    The governor will appear before the committee next Tuesday.

    这名行政官员将于下周二面对该委员会回答提问。

  • 15. 

    PREP If something happens before a particular person or group, it is seen by or happens while this person or this group is present. (发生) 在 (某人、某组织) 面前

    例:

    The game followed a colourful opening ceremony before a crowd of seventy-four thousand.

    紧随一场精彩的开幕式,该比赛在7.4万名观众面前拉开了帷幕。

  • 16. 

    PREP If you have something such as a trip, a task, or a stage of your life before you, you must do it or live through it in the future. (必须经历的事情) 在 (某人) 面前 [PREP pron]

    例:

    Everyone in the room knew it was the single hardest task before them.

    屋子里每个人都知道这是摆在他们面前的一项最艰巨的任务。

  • 17. 

    PREP When you want to say that one person or thing is more important than another, you can say that they come before the other person or thing. (重要性) 以…为先 [v PREP n]

    例:

    Her husband and her children came before her needs.

    她的丈夫和孩子们比她的需要更重要。

  • 18. 

    before long →see long

词组短语

before and after 前后,之前之后

than before 比以前

as before 如以前

before long 不久以后

ever before 以前;从前

than ever before 比以往任何时候更…

from before 从…以前

go before 居先;走在前面

on or before 截至;在或在…以前

before all 尤其,特别

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双语例句权威例句

  • Investors who fear that high diamond prices may not be fore...

    担心钻石价格难以持续的投资者也许很快就有帮手了。

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  • I knew her work and had attended some of her lectures but had never met her to speak to be fore.

    知道工作还听她的次课这以前我与她说过话

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  • I was up the next morning be fore the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland.

    第二凌晨,在十月太阳升起之前已经起身穿过了旷野丛林

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  • My translator and I left Alef just be fore noon.

    NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored

  • That task grew more difficult in May, when news broke that federal prosecutors were looking into allegations that MCI, since 1994 and be-fore merging into WorldCom, had be-gun illegally disguising long-distance calls as local ones to avoid paying the Bells millions of dollars in access fees--and continues to do so.

    FORBES: Screaming Match

  • We drove past my old high school: there were bars on the windows where there hadn't been before I went to prison, armed uniformed guards out front where be-fore there'd been old-lady hall monitors with whistles, and I imagined that the bars and the guards were there to protect the students from me and not some teenage crazy in a trench coat stuffed with home-made ordnance.

    NPR: Chapter 1

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词组短语

before and after 前后,之前之后

than before 比以前

as before 如以前

before long 不久以后

ever before 以前;从前

than ever before 比以往任何时候更…

from before 从…以前

go before 居先;走在前面

on or before 截至;在或在…以前

before all 尤其,特别

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