从前的英文
英语翻译
- previously
- formerly
- beforetime
- ci-devant
- in days gone by
- in the old days
- long since
- once upon a time
- whilom
- aforetime
- when
- on a time
- upon a time
- ages ago
- once
- langsyne
- long ago
- in olden days
参考释义
- 从前[cóngqián]
- -before;formerly;inthepast;onceuponatime;alongtimeago;sometimeago;[古]sometime:
Onceuponatime,therelivedanoldmanwhohadtwobeautifuldaughters.从前，有一个老人，他有两个美丽的女儿。
Ourvillageisverydifferentfromwhatitwasbefore.我们村跟从前大不一样了。
实用例句
- 这本书从前很出名，现在没人看了。
This book was once famous, but nobody reads it today. - 从前有一个公主。
Once upon a time there was a princess. - 从前有个美丽的公主 ...
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess ... - 从前医生常常给病人放血。
Doctors used to bleed people when they were ill. - 我从前没有见过他。
I hadn't seen him previously. - 从前，在一个小村庄里住着一位老人。
Once upon a time, there was an old man living in a small village. - 从前，有一位非常美丽的公主。
Once upon a time, there lived a princess who was very beautiful. - 从前人们在手术前用乙醚来使病人昏睡。
Ether was used formerly to put a patient to sleep before an operation.