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before

英 [bɪ'fɔː] 美[bɪ'fɔr]

英英释义同义词辨析考试真题实用场景例句

prep. 在…之前，先于
adv. 以前；在前
conj. 在…以前；在…之前

实用场景例句

before lunch: 午餐前

the day before yesterday: 前天

The year before last he won a gold medal, and the year before that he won a silver.: 他前年得了一枚金牌，大前年得了一枚银牌。

She's lived there since before the war.: 她从战前起就一直住在那里。

He arrived before me.: 他比我先到。

She became a lawyer as her father had before her.: 像她父亲先前一样，她成了一名律师。

Leave your keys at reception before departure.: 离开前请把钥匙留在服务台。

Something ought to have been done before now.: 先前就该采取措施了。

We'll know before long (= soon) .: 我们很快就会知道了。

Turn left just before (= before you reach) the bank.: 在快到银行时向左拐。

They knelt before the throne.: 他们跪在御座前。

Before you is a list of the points we have to discuss.: 放在你面前的是一份我们要讨论的要点清单。

Your name is before mine on the list.: 名单上你的名字在我之前。

Her husband, her children, and the Church came before her needs.: 丈夫、孩子和教会都比她本人的需求重要。

I saw before me an idyllic life.: 展现在我眼前的是充满诗情画意的生活。

The Governor will appear before the committee next Tuesday.: 下周二，州长将接受委员会的质询。

The game followed a colourful opening ceremony before a crowd of seventy-four thousand.: 绚丽多彩的开幕式过后，这场比赛在74,000名观众的瞩目之下开始了。

Everyone in the room knew it was the single hardest task before them...: 房间里所有人都清楚，摆在他们面前的是最为艰巨的任务。

The turn is about two kilometres before the roundabout.: 拐弯就在环岛前面约2公里处。

Before Gallacher could catch up with the ball, Nadlovu had beaten him to it.: 加拉赫还没来得及追上球，纳德洛武就已经抢先一步触到球了。

I've been here before...: 我以前来过这儿。

I had met Professor Lown before...: 我以前见过劳恩教授。

It was some time before the door opened in response to his ring.: 他按完门铃后过了一会儿门才打开。

There was additional work to be done before all the troops would be ready.: 在全军准备就绪之前，还有一些杂事必须处理。

They drove through a tall iron gate and stopped before a large white villa.: 他们开车穿过一个大铁门，在一栋白色的大别墅前面停了下来。

Annie was born a few weeks before Christmas...: 安妮出生在圣诞节前几周。

Before World War II, women were not recruited as intelligence officers...: 在第二次世界大战之前，女性不能当情报人员。

He spent his early life in Sri Lanka before moving to England...: 在移居英格兰之前，他早年是在斯里兰卡度过的。

Before leaving, he went into his office to fill in the daily time sheet.: 离开前，他到自己的办公室填写了日常考勤表。

The war had ended only a month or so before.: 战争大约一个月前才刚刚结束。

同义词辨析

ago, before

这两个副词均含"……以前"之意。

ago：指从现在起往前推算一段时间，始终置于所修饰的词之后，与一般过去时连用。

before：或指从过去某一时间起向前推算的若干时间的以前，通常与过去完成时连用；或泛指以前，并不具体指若干时间以前，可使用现在完成的或过去时；还可指从将来某一时间起的若干时间以前。

before, in front of, in the front of

这些前置词(短语)均含有"在……前"之意。

before：指空间位置或时间的"在……前"。表时间时，反义词为after；指空间位置时，其反义词是behind。

in front of：指在某地方之外的前面，即不在其中，多与静态动词连用，通常可与before通用。

in the front of：指在某地方之内的前面，即在其中的前部分。