before
英[b?'f??]
美[b?'f?r]
- prep. 在…之前，先于
- adv. 以前；在前
- conj. 在…以前；在…之前
英英釋意
- 1. 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"
- "her parents had died four years earlier"
- "I mentioned that problem earlier"
- 2. at or in the front;
- "I see the lights of a town ahead"
- "the road ahead is foggy"
- "staring straight ahead"
- "we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front"
- "with the cross of Jesus marching on before"