before

before

美 [bɪˈfɔr] 　英 [bɪˈfɔː(r)]

• adv.以前；过去；已经
• conj.以免；不然；在…以前；到…为止
• prep.在…以前；在…面前（或前面）；（次序或排列）在前面；表示面临或临近

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

“在我们上场前，我才得知这个消息。”他说。

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

第5天上午，小船将离开这个位置，以躲避中国巡逻舰。

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

现在让我介绍公司的董事长给大家讲话。

My love is all over before it had even begun.

我的爱情没有开始就已经结束。

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

他站起身来看着他们。天啊！他看到的是一位国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，它呆在离我二十英尺开外足足有二十五分钟。

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

我站在桥上才一会儿，就有三、五辆车开始在我面前开来开去了。

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

但在最新的声明中，普京表示直到明年小麦收割才会解除。

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关心。

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员，才修好厕所。

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

消费增长有可能稍微受到遏制，但零售支出在股市大涨之前就已经开始攀升了。

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

因此，推荐做法是：在试图提升瓶颈速度之前，先放慢所有非瓶颈操作的速度。

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.

通过搜索用户介绍的摘要和专业的评论，就可以方便的找到一家好的餐馆，这种方式以前从来没有被使用过。

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

令人不可思议是，现场毫无异样，尸体们就象生了翅膀一样无声无息的消失了。

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

他转储您的产品或计算出一种解决方法之前，用户会容忍只有这么多安全相关（或其他）的开销。

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

她走过她的闺房，对着镜子打扮着，预备应邀赴一个宴会。

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

你可能要写上几分钟才能真正地进入最佳状态。

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

艾尔顿决定到她那里去，将摆在他面前的重要事情推迟半小时左右。

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

石泉去煤矿前来过一封信，至今没有他的消息。

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.

其他风筝也发生了类似情况，甚至是在那根放飞的绳子全部湿透之前。这时，我完全可以将大量的电收集并储存到电容器里面去。

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

由于莱伊小姐以前没能说明这件事，因此使事情变得很不好理解了。

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

我认识她不止一天了，其实我要是压根儿就不认识她，也许反倒好哪。

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。要是风向不转，午夜之前别来叫我。我觉得有点不舒服。

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

他冲着教师们侃侃而谈，仿佛就在一两个星期前刚和他们分别似的。

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

前次她穿着银箔礼服，人们看着已经觉得眼花缭乱了，这次穿了金箔礼服，她看起来比前次更加艳丽夺目了。

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

我还来不及动手干什么，那些跟着我穿过院子的人就冲了进来。

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

这实在是有趣得很，而在你来以前，我和其他的人一样感到烦闷。

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

玛丽还没有想到天光会从地平线上透露的时候，鱼肚色的早晨已使烛火变得暗淡了。

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

这是她诞生的地方，她和她的祖先就在这儿生长起来的。

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

学生不顾家长的意愿，去国外呆了一年才回到大学来。

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

大卫本可能先开枪的，但他过去从未用枪对人瞄准过，更不用说杀人了。

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

要是我没有看透他的用意，而且小心提防的话，可能早就中他的计了。

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

即便在克莱德跟自己来往以前，罗伯塔也不希望这样粘在一起。

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

她也是一夜没有睡，一直在想心事。这件心事已经不知多少回使她心神不宁。

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

他的眼睛平时都是注视着自己脚前的地面，这时忽然被圣保罗教堂的圆顶引得朝上望去。

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

顶峰，尤其是前人未曾问津过的顶峰，正是他们所追求的目标。

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

我顺着他的眼光看去，只见房间那边有个女人正端着托盘在客人面前上酒。

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.

我认为，在我们没有弄清楚苏联在中东下一步的打算之前，就宣布这样一个决定是非常不明智的。

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

在校长办公室门前，她停步片刻使自己镇静下来。

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

在把邪恶的念头永远遮掩在习俗之中以前，她也许长期沉溺在自己的更为脏肮的思想中。

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

我们必须在那些可怕的机器在田里轰鸣之前，就得把全部家具、行李和粮草从这儿搬走。

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

他必须在他们意识到他们搜捕的是一名杀人犯之前就离开此地。

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

女人的贞操，或者至少是贞操名誉，在婚前是至关重要的。

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

看来，隆决定在未死之前对他做出坦率的公正的评价。

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

他母亲上一天刚从玛丽斯维尔回来，她在那边给那个小把戏找一家学校。

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

几乎过了一个星期，姑娘才讲出了她的遭遇。

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

我不知道您以前是否见过她的作品。

He called me to meet him before he took off.

他叫我在他动身之前去跟他见面。

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

以前，人们做的裙子下摆都是不贴身的。

I have known something of him before.

我以前对他有所了解。

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.

如果这正是你想要的探寻，那么请点击这里，订购你想要的“帝国缔造工具包”，订购几小时后就将结束。

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

我说得没错吧！对不对？他们俩之间一点激情都没有，以前他们之间还有点，现在一点都没有了！现在你明白这意。

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

当您回到工作中来的时候，您的同事可能在您没有发觉之前，已经经过了许多这样的迭代。

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

上午11点不到，她现身并告诉在场等待的记者，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.

我确定有些你已经早就看出其中的奥秘，但是我希望这次能够展示给你一些你还不知道的新东西。

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

此后一年我在反复研习牌技的过程中，每每想到大师所说，均不得其解。

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

他以前没看过这么惊险的侦探小说。

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

一个进程只是一个对象，它完成某些任务，随后在它准备完成下一个任务之前有时会等待一会儿。

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

汤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.

在托斯卡乡村人们起身他们的白天很早，恰好黎明前，但是放松下来在提前的下午为了午睡。

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.

在动工兴建高坝之前，人们已料到建坝会出现若干问题。

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

你曾爱过我吗？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.

在决定投资金额之前，我们要先了解情况。

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.

世界上最遥远的距离不是生与死，而是我站在你面前，你却不知道我爱你

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

其中一个工人装模作样地问道，在被带往警察局之前，是否可以打一个电话。

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 .

知识是团鬼火，永远飘荡在行人伸手莫及的地方；甚至为了看它一眼，必须作一次使人劳顿不堪的旅行。

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

P离开酒吧前，与B谈了一会，说希望与B仍然能继续做朋友。

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

但是在他离开前，大师对他耳语道，“如果要跟从自己的心，你就要有强健的体魄。”

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

美联储过去从未宣布过延续时间长达两年的此类政策。

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

我离开长岛前就发觉她已开始对玛迪摆下迷魂阵了。

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

我从没象她来以前一星期那么忧郁，那么厌烦。

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

他显得迫不及待地想上甲板去，守候在那架曾露过面的雪橇。

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

“慢着，慢着，”船长也叫道，“在你看出有必要以前，请别闹出乱子来。”

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.

他一直爱着自己的几个孩子。但是以前他从来没想过他会爱得如此的深，他们没有一起过又会如此的苦。

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

带他去马里兰之前，我们想请一些朋友到此和他见见面--吃一顿便饭吧--然后，举行一个欢迎会。

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

裘睁大了眼睛，仿佛自己过去从未想到这一点。

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几天，他来到我的办公室，告诉我他的考虑。

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

尽管玛丽以前从来不敢和父亲争辩，她却又说：“丹尼斯是一个正派人，爸爸。”

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

这个词那天下午从他嘴里说出来时显得从未有过的挺有份量，而且实在。