before

美 [b??f?r] 　英 [b??f??(r)]

• adv.以前；過去；已經
• conj.以免；不然；在…以前；到…為止
• prep.在…以前；在…面前（或前面）；（次序或排列）在前面；表示面臨或臨近

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例句

"I found out just a few minutes before we came out, " he said.

“在我們上場前，我才得知這個消息。”他說。

The boat would have to leave this site before 5 am to avoid Chinese patrol ships.

第5天上午，小船將離開這個位置，以躲避中國巡邏艦。

Let me now present the president of the company to speak before you.

現在讓我介紹公司的董事長給大家講話。

My love is all over before it had even begun.

我的愛情沒有開始就已經結束。

He rose from his feet and looked at them. And lo! He saw a king and a queen before him.

他站起身來看著他們。天啊！他看到的是一位國王和一位皇后站在他面前。

She stayed about twenty feet from me for a full twenty five minutes before she was willing to approach me. (I completely ignored her).

在它敢接近我前，它呆在離我二十英尺開外足足有二十五分鐘。

When I stood on the bridge, three (up to five) vehicles started to move back and forth in front of me before long.

我站在橋上才一會兒，就有三、五輛車開始在我面前開來開去了。

In his revised statement, he said it would not be before next year's harvest had been reaped.

但在最新的聲明中，普京表示直到明年小麥收割才會解除。

It is said that he was a great singer before. return Nothing but But he cares nothing but his research.

但他除了他的研究之外什么也不關心。

Until the day before yesterday, she found something of Hitachi City Hall staff, only fix the toilet.

直到前天，她找到日立市事役所工作人員，才修好廁所。

It is possible that consumption growth might be modestly held back, but retail spending was already surging before the market rally began.

消費增長有可能稍微受到遏制，但零售支出在股市大漲之前就已經開始攀升了。

Thus, the recommendation is to slow down all non-bottleneck operations before trying to speed the bottlenecks up.

因此，推薦做法是：在試圖提升瓶頸速度之前，先放慢所有非瓶頸操作的速度。

makes it easy to find a great restaurant by presenting a summary of user and professional reviews in a way that has never been done before.

通過搜索用戶介紹的摘要和專業(yè)的評論，就可以方便的找到一家好的餐館，這種方式以前從來沒有被使用過。

The inconceivable thing was that the spot was just the same with before but the bodies were gone without anything just like having wings.

令人不可思議是，現場毫無異樣，尸體們就象生了翅膀一樣無聲無息的消失了。

A user will tolerate only so much security-related (or other) overhead before he either dumps your product or figures out a workaround.

他轉儲您的產品或計算出一種解決方法之前，用戶會容忍只有這么多安全相關（或其他）的開銷。

She walked into her boudoir, and before her mirror began to dress for a dinner to which she had been invited.

她走過她的閨房，對著鏡子打扮著，預備應邀赴一個宴會。

You might have to write for a few minutes before you really get into the groove.

你可能要寫上幾分鐘才能真正地進入最佳狀態(tài)。

Elton decided to walk up to her place and put off by half - an -hour or so the important business which lay before him.

艾爾頓決定到她那里去，將擺在他面前的重要事情推遲半小時左右。

Up to the present, we have had no news about Shiquan except the last one before he went to coal mine.

石泉去煤礦前來過一封信，至今沒有他的消息。

Others followed even before the whole string was wet. And I was able to collect and store a great deal of electricity into the condenser.

其他風箏也發(fā)生了類似情況，甚至是在那根放飛的繩子全部濕透之前。這時，我完全可以將大量的電收集并儲存到電容器里面去。

It was not to be expected that Miss Ley would explain before making the affair a good deal more complicated.

由于萊伊小姐以前沒能說明這件事，因此使事情變得很不好理解了。

I knew her before today, though perhaps it would have been better if I had not.

我認識她不止一天了，其實我要是壓根兒就不認識她，也許反倒好哪。

I won't come on deck, I think I'll turn in, and unless the wind shifts, I don't want to be disturbed before midnight. I feel a bit seedy.

我不上甲板了，我要上床了。要是風向不轉，午夜之前別來叫我。我覺得有點不舒服。

He talked to the masters quite easily as though he had parted from them a week or two before.

他沖著教師們侃侃而談，仿佛就在一兩個星期前剛和他們分別似的。

She had looked dazzling before in her silver dress, but in her dress of beaten gold she was more radiant.

前次她穿著銀箔禮服，人們看著已經覺得眼花繚亂了，這次穿了金箔禮服，她看起來比前次更加艷麗奪目了。

Before I could stir in the matter, the man who had followed me across the courtyard crowded in.

我還來不及動手干什么，那些跟著我穿過院子的人就沖了進來。

It was all very interesting, but before you came in I was as bored as the others.

這實在是有趣得很，而在你來以前，我和其他的人一樣感到煩悶。

The gray dawn began to dim the light of the rushcandle, before Mary thought it possible that day was already trembling on the horizon.

瑪麗還沒有想到天光會從地平線上透露的時候，魚肚色的早晨已使燭火變得暗淡了。

This was the land of her birth, out of which she, and her fathers before her, had arisen.

這是她誕生的地方，她和她的祖先就在這兒生長起來的。

Flinging aside the wishes of his parents, the student went abroad for a year before returning to his university.

學生不顧家長的意愿，去國外呆了一年才回到大學來。

David might have shot him first, but David had never before pointed a gun at a human being, let alone killed somebody.

大衛(wèi)本可能先開槍的，但他過去從未用槍對人瞄準過，更不用說殺人了。

I might have done it before now if I had not guessed what he was after, and been on my guard.

要是我沒有看透他的用意，而且小心提防的話，可能早就中他的計了。

Roberta, even before the arrival of Clyde in her life, did not want to be so clung to.

即便在克萊德跟自己來往以前，羅伯塔也不希望這樣粘在一起。

She, too, had been awake all that night. She had been thinking of a thing which had agitated her mind a hundred times before.

她也是一夜沒有睡，一直在想心事。這件心事已經不知多少回使她心神不寧。

His eyes which he usually kept fixed on the ground before his feet, were attracted upwards by the dome of St. Paul's.

他的眼睛平時都是注視著自己腳前的地面，這時忽然被圣保羅教堂的圓頂引得朝上望去。

The summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before.

頂峰，尤其是前人未曾問津過的頂峰，正是他們所追求的目標。

I followed his eyes and looked across the room to a woman who was setting a tray of drinks before some customers.

我順著他的眼光看去，只見房間那邊有個女人正端著托盤在客人面前上酒。

I thought it unwise in the extreme to announce such a decision before we had any idea of the next Soviet move in the Middle East.

我認為，在我們沒有弄清楚蘇聯在中東下一步的打算之前，就宣布這樣一個決定是非常不明智的。

Before the door of the headmaster's office, she stopped and re-collected herself for a while.

在校長辦公室門前，她停步片刻使自己鎮(zhèn)靜下來。

She could have been lingering amongst some of her more disreputable thoughts before clothing them for ever in convention.

在把邪惡的念頭永遠遮掩在習俗之中以前，她也許長期沉溺在自己的更為臟骯的思想中。

We really must get all the furniture and baggage and stores moved out of this before those horrid machines begin clicking round the fields.

我們必須在那些可怕的機器在田里轟鳴之前，就得把全部家具、行李和糧草從這兒搬走。

It was important for him to be out of the area before they knew they were looking for a murderer.

他必須在他們意識到他們搜捕的是一名殺人犯之前就離開此地。

The chastity of a woman, or at least her reputation for chastity, is of vital importance before marriage.

女人的貞操，或者至少是貞操名譽，在婚前是至關重要的。

Roon seems to have decided to level about him before he died.

看來，隆決定在未死之前對他做出坦率的公正的評價。

His mother had only the day before returned from Marysville, where she had been looking up a seminary for the little tad.

他母親上一天剛從瑪麗斯維爾回來，她在那邊給那個小把戲找一家學校。

Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her.

幾乎過了一個星期，姑娘才講出了她的遭遇。

I do not know whether you ever happened to see any of her performances before.

我不知道您以前是否見過她的作品。

He called me to meet him before he took off.

他叫我在他動身之前去跟他見面。

The skirts used to be made to stand away from the body before.

以前，人們做的裙子下擺都是不貼身的。

I have known something of him before.

我以前對他有所了解。

If that sounds like the right kind of quest for you, click here to buy the Empire Building Kit now, before orders close in just a few hours.

如果這正是你想要的探尋，那么請點擊這里，訂購你想要的“帝國締造工具包”，訂購幾小時后就將結束。

Chandler: I'm right! Right? There was like no chemistry between them. Before they had heat, and now there's no heat! Now.

我說得沒錯吧！對不對？他們倆之間一點激情都沒有，以前他們之間還有點，現在一點都沒有了！現在你明白這意。

By the time you come to work your colleagues might have gone through several such iterations before you are even aware of it.

當您回到工作中來的時候，您的同事可能在您沒有發(fā)覺之前，已經經過了許多這樣的迭代。

Shortly before 11am, she emerged to tell waiting reporters that she had been dismissed.

上午11點不到，她現身并告訴在場等待的記者，她已被解雇。

I'm sure you've seen some of these hidden messages before, but I hope I've been able to show you some new ones as well.

我確定有些你已經早就看出其中的奧秘，但是我希望這次能夠展示給你一些你還不知道的新東西。

A year before I repeated learning the game process, often thought of Masters said, are not the solution.

此后一年我在反復研習牌技的過程中，每每想到大師所說，均不得其解。

He said he had not read so frightening a detective novel before.

他以前沒看過這么驚險的偵探小說。

A process is simply an object that does something, then sometimes waits for a while before it is ready to do a next thing.

一個進程只是一個對象，它完成某些任務，隨后在它準備完成下一個任務之前有時會等待一會兒。

Tom was fired by the company, but it wasn't long before he found a new job.

湯姆被那家公司解雇了，但是不久他就找到了一份新工作。

In the Tuscan countryside people start their day quite early, just before dawn, but wind down in the early afternoon for siesta.

在托斯卡鄉(xiāng)村人們起身他們的白天很早，恰好黎明前，但是放松下來在提前的下午為了午睡。

I happened to see Miss Jin. She was more beautiful than before.

我碰巧看到金小姐。她比以前更漂亮了。

Before they began to build the dam, people already knew that there were going to be several problems.

在動工興建高壩之前，人們已料到建壩會出現若干問題。

If u ever loved me before? how much i wanna know!

你曾愛過我嗎？我是多么地想知道！

We need to get the lay of the land before we decide how much money to invest.

在決定投資金額之前，我們要先了解情況。

It is the furthest distance is you did not know what I love you stand before you and is not live and die in the world.

世界上最遙遠的距離不是生與死，而是我站在你面前，你卻不知道我愛你

Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the station.

其中一個工人裝模作樣地問道，在被帶往警察局之前，是否可以打一個電話。

Knowledge is a well-of-the- wisp , fluttering ever out of the traveler's reach, and a weary journey must be endured before it is even seen .

知識是團鬼火，永遠飄蕩在行人伸手莫及的地方；甚至為了看它一眼，必須作一次使人勞頓不堪的旅行。

Before P left the bar, he walked over to B and said he wanted to be friend with B.

P離開酒吧前，與B談了一會，說希望與B仍然能繼續(xù)做朋友。

Before he left, however, the Master said to him in a whisper, "To follow your heart you are going to need a strong constitution" .

但是在他離開前，大師對他耳語道，“如果要跟從自己的心，你就要有強健的體魄。”

Never before has the central bank made such a policy declaration for as long a period as two years.

美聯儲過去從未宣布過延續(xù)時間長達兩年的此類政策。

Before I left Long Island I saw that she was beginning to lay her toils for Mattie.

我離開長島前就發(fā)覺她已開始對瑪迪擺下迷魂陣了。

I had never been more blue, more bored, than for a week before she came.

我從沒象她來以前一星期那么憂郁，那么厭煩。

He manifested the greatest eagerness to be upon deck to watch for sledge which had before appear.

他顯得迫不及待地想上甲板去，守候在那架曾露過面的雪橇。

"Don't be hasty" , said the captain. "Don't do a mischief before you see the need of it. "

“慢著，慢著，”船長也叫道，“在你看出有必要以前，請別鬧出亂子來。”

He had always loved his children but he had never before realized how much he loved them and how bad it was that he did not live with them.

他一直愛著自己的幾個孩子。但是以前他從來沒想過他會愛得如此的深，他們沒有一起過又會如此的苦。

Before taking him down to Maryland we are inviting a few friends to meet him here-only a little dinner-with a reception afterwards.

帶他去馬里蘭之前，我們想請一些朋友到此和他見見面--吃一頓便飯吧--然后，舉行一個歡迎會。

Jo opened her eyes as if it had never occurred to her before.

裘睜大了眼睛，仿佛自己過去從未想到這一點。

A few days before he made the announcement, Henry came into my office to tell me what he had in mind.

在亨利宣布此事的前幾天，他來到我的辦公室，告訴我他的考慮。

Although she had never dared to argue with her father before, Mary added: "Denis is in a good business, Father. "

盡管瑪麗以前從來不敢和父親爭辯，她卻又說：“丹尼斯是一個正派人，爸爸。”

Well, the word had never before sounded as heavy, as real, as it sounded that afternoon in his mouth.

這個詞那天下午從他嘴里說出來時顯得從未有過的挺有份量，而且實在。