【before音标】 英[bɪˈfɔ:(r)] 美[bɪˈfɔ:r]
【单词释义】 before是什么意思：
prep.在…之前；先于，优于；当着…的面；与其…
conj.在…之前；在…以前；比…早些；与其…
adv.先前，从前；在前，在前方
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【常用短语】
before long 不久;很快
【近义词解析】
◇ 以前
ago (adv. 以前)：指从现在起往前推算一段时间，通常和一般过去时的动词连用。
before (adv. 先前，以前)：指过去某时间之前的时间或泛指以前，通常与动词的现在完成时连用，有时也可与动词的过去完成时或一般过去时连用，也可用于具体的一段时间；在间接引语中用 before 而不用 ago。
formerly ([六级]adv. 以前，从前)：泛指以前，有时常用于对比。He was formerly a worker, but now he is a manager of a shop.
previously ([六级]adv. 以前，先前)：与 before 用法相同，但更加正式。
【单词例句】
◇ Precisely at this time, holding a net bird catchers, those who came before, but only still cherish the pride and his beautiful peacock tail feathers, refused to fly to flee the scene, then had to fall into the trap planted bird catchers.
恰在此时，手持罗网捕鸟的人又来到了面前，而这只孔雀还在珍惜顾盼自己漂亮的尾羽，不肯展翅高飞逃离现 场，于是只好落入了捕鸟人撒下的罗网。
---- The Peacock
◇ And how fierce they are! They tear off each other's legs. and arms and bodies, before and behind;and yet they are merry and joyful in their way.
它们的样子非常凶猛，彼此撕着腿和臂、尾巴和身体;然而它们自己却感到愉快和高兴。
---- The Drop of Water
◇ One day he had gone into the forest to gather wood, where he was approached by an old man, whom he had never seen before, and who said, "Why do you torment yourself with chopping wood? I will make you rich if you will promise me that which is standing behind your mill."
有一天，他到森林里去砍柴，一个他从没见过的老头走近前来对他说：“你何苦这么辛苦地砍柴呀？只要你答应把你磨房后的东西给我，我就让你过富人的日子。”
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ It was not long before someone knocked at the door and called out, "Open the door, children dear, your mother is here, and has brought something for each one of you."
没过多久，有人敲门，而且大声说：“开门哪，我的好孩子。你们的妈妈回来了，还给你们每个人带来了一点东西。”
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ He said, "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but it also increased his faith in God and the human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.
男孩说：“那么，就请接受我由衷的感谢吧！”说完，霍华德-凯利就离开了这户人家。此时的他不仅自己浑身是劲儿，而且更加相信上帝和整个人类。本来，他都打算放弃了。
---- The warmth of a cup of milk
◇ Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use.
甚至在1880年前，半数在纽约、费城和巴尔的摩销售的冰，三分之一在波士顿和芝加哥销售的冰进入家庭使用。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ I had heard it before many times and yet somehow was still not immune; perhaps one did not become immune to such felony.
虽然这些话我已经听上好几千遍了，可每次听完都让我很受伤，或许在这样巨大的打击面前没有人能做到无动于衷。
---- A Little Piece of Me
◇ I want a wife who will have arranged that the children are fed and ready for bed before my guests arrive so that the children do not bother us.
我希望有这样一个老婆，在我的客人们到来之前，为了不让孩子们打搅我们，她已经妥为安排，让孩子们吃过饭准备睡觉了。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ My mother had a disease that was cutting the blood flow to her brain. It was deteriorating her life and it would take it in three years. Her life could be prolonged if the surgery was done now. Twelve brave hearts had gone before her but only three of them had walked away.
母亲患的是脑血栓，这凶险的疾病有可能在三个月内夺走她的生命。现在立即手术有希望延长她的生命，可是，在她之前十二个人接受这种手术，仅有三人活了下来。
---- To Love Enough
◇ Besides the issue of consumer habits,infrastructure costs are set to be immense,and will have to be met by national states or the private sector before being passed on to users.Platforms do not necessarily have to be expensive.
除了消费者的习惯问题，基础设施的成本开始是很大的。在到达用户之前，先由政府和私人组织过目。平台不需要很昂贵。