before

英[bɪˈfɔː(r)]
美[bɪˈfɔːr]

基本释义

prep.
在…之前; 在…前面; 比…重要
conj.
在…之前; 到…为止; 以免
adv.
以前

实用例句

before lunch

午餐前

牛津词典

the day before yesterday

前天

牛津词典

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。

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She's lived there since before the war.

她从战前起就一直住在那里。

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He arrived before me.

他比我先到。

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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。

牛津词典

Leave your keys at reception before departure.

离开前请把钥匙留在服务台。

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Something ought to have been done before now.

先前就该采取措施了。

牛津词典

We'll know before long (= soon) .

我们很快就会知道了。

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Turn left just before (= before you reach) the bank.

在快到银行时向左拐。

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They knelt before the throne.

他们跪在御座前。

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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。

牛津词典

Your name is before mine on the list.

名单上你的名字在我之前。

牛津词典

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。

真题例句

They also had talk therapy with a nurse before and after quit day.

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She never knows if the egg will break before the design is completed.

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People in both groups used nicotine patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement, like gum or spray.

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Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

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By conventional standards, Leah was a typical successful woman before she changed her career.

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And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

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The shorthand educators use for this is pre-K —meaning instruction before kindergarten—and the big idea is to prepare 4-year-olds and even younger kids to be ready to succeed on their K-12 journey.

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Such findings, which run counter to common sense, have surfaced before.

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Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.

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Do sufficient testing before taking action.

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Before we collectively tear our hair out—how are we supposed to find our way in a landscape this confusing? —here is a thought from Dr.

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They have more older students than before.

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As said before, with the right equipment and the right know-how, it's possible to jam any wireless transmission.

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But just before he reached the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching down to peer at something on the sidewalk.

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Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

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The Healthy Choice product line was carefully tested with consumers before being introduced to the general public.

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Dozens of children at a Utah elementary school had their lunch trays snatched away from them before they could take a bite this week.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

Dozens of children at a Utah elementary school had theirlunch trays snatched away from them before they could take a bite this week.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

A 2016 review of 10 studies looking into the relationship between breakfast and weight management concluded there is "limited evidence" supporting or refuting (反驳) the argument that breakfast influences weight or food intake, and more evidence is required

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Also, if we both sign up before Friday, we can get a discount on a six-month membership.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

America's Internet is faster than ever before, but people still complain about their Internet being too slow.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Before Allred knew it, New Mexico State police officers were among the many stopping by,helping them reach a total of $568.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

But I should be in tomorrow morning before I go out for lunch.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

But just before he reached the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching (蹲伏) down to peer at something on the sidewalk.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Dozens of children at a Utah elementary school had their lunch trays snatched away from them before they could take a bite this week.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Forgetting how to operate a familiar object like a microwave oven, or forgetting how to drive to the house of a friend you've visited many times before can also be signs of something going wrong.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson before releasing her to the online forums.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

I was hesitant because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before.

2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

I've got a little put aside for a rainy day, but I might need to earn a little more before we go.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

I've never earned so much money before.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Juices are quick and easy to prepare, you can take the frozen fruit out the night before and have it ready the next morning.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Komada likes to teach his students that they should think about their move before they do it.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Long before television cooking shows, Careme walked readers through common kitchen tasks, instructing them to "try this for yourself, at home" as famous American Chef Julia Child might do, many years later.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

People in both groups used nicotine patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement,like gum or spray.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Please keep in mind, this will be a new TV show, like nothing ever done before.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

So some animals, such as mice, collect extra food before winter, and hide it.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The airlander will need to have 200 hours' flying time before being allowed to fly by the aviation administration.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The day before I spoke to Martinez in November, he had beer touring the damage from Hurricane Michael in Florida with the American Red Cross.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The moon is also home to lunar orbiters that mapped the moon before they crashed into its surface, adding to the garbage heap.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The Olympic got wrecked before the titanic did, but it was the only one to survive and maintain a successful career of 24 years.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The shorthand educators use for this is "pre-K"—meaning instruction before kindergarten—and the big idea is to prepare 4-year-olds and even younger kids to be ready to succeed on their K-12 journey.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

They hope to return to the site with geologists for an additional search as there could before fossils near the site.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

To prepare for this before winter, these animals eat extra food to become fat, which gives them the energy they need while they sleep.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

We wanted to give people an opportunity to actually see the calories before they purchase the food and make a decision, an informed decision that if they want to make a healthier choice, if they want to eat fewer calories, they can.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

While 53% believe men will continue to hold more top executive positions in business in die future, 44% say it's only a matter of time before as many women are in top executive positions as men.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

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Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

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Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

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Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.

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Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.

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You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

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Mr.De Keyzer, I’m a great lover of your book Moments Before the Flood.

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The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.

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Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like acting before thinking and persistence in reaching goals.

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Upon reflection, however, it is equally easy to feel like you have seen it all before.

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To be sure, the battery still has a long way to go before the nightly recharge completely replaces the weekly trip to the gas station.

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The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.

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The demand for energy resources may compel renegotiation of Antarctica's treaties before their expiration.

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The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

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Scholars warn that Antarctica's political drift could blur the distinction between military and civilian activities long before the continent's treaties come up for renegotiation, especially in parts of Antarctica that are ideal for intercepting signals from satellites or retasking satellite systems, potentially enhancing global electronic intelligence operations.

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Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show , and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.

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Now we are told Members of Parliament will have a free vote before parliament is dissolved in March.

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Many of the coolest gadgets this year are the same as the coolest gadgets last year – or the year before, even.

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And even before then, scholars warn, the demand for resources in an energy-hungry world could raise pressure to renegotiate Antarctica's treaties, possibly allowing more commercial endeavours here well before the prohibitions against them expire.

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Americans are working longer and harder hours than ever before.

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Sadly the pleasure that comes from extravagances often disappears long before the bills do.

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In other words, it appears that minds give out before their bodies do.

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We should take our future into consideration in making decisions concerning climate change before it is too late.

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We get distracted before we can turn down the heating.

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They have to operate for long periods of time before the costs of development have been recovered.

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One needs the designers, and perhaps the regulators, before the builders and operators, and each group of workers in training has to know there is work waiting beyond graduation.

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On top of the tragic loss of life, the accident in California will cast a long shadow over the future of space tourism, even before it has properly begun.

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Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

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"You can get enough protein and meet the RDA before you even get to dinner," says Pipitone.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Agencies and companies throughout the world are working on developing technology that would dispose of or capture space debris before it causes serious damages.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

And it's not like this hasn't happened before.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

As a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences highlights, these satellites hold tremendous potential for making satellite-based science more accessible than ever before.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

As an organization of volunteers, AMSAT was putting "amateur" satellites in orbit decades before the current Cube Sat craze.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

As stories go through the chains of people, they are refined, corrected and sorted out until they come finally to me and I have a chance to read through most stories before I go on the air.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Bridget O'Hanlon and her husband, who live in Cleveland, decided before their daughter was born that they would not post her photos online.

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But before you dump all of your retail stocks, there are more facts you should consider.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

But less than a month before hand, inspectors found significant problems with the fire safety system and push the opening back again to 2013.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happened.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Each day of Kwanzaa, usually before the evening meal, family and friends gather around the table and someone lights a candle, beginning with the black.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

For a brief moment during that stage of its life cycle, the tongue consists of two tiny half-tubes before merging into one.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In one study, researchers interview 955 people involved in traffic accidents, the majority of them reported having daydream just before the accident.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

In other words, rewards are more intense for teens when they are with peers, which motivates them to pursue higher-risk experiences that might bring a big payoff such as the thrill of just making the light before it turns re.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

It is believed to have originated in South America in the early 1900s, and later spread to Europe before crossing over to sub-Saharan Africa.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

It is clear now that it's a matter of time before the entire European coastline disappears under water.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Just like drones before them, miniature satellites are beginning to fundamentally transform our conceptions of who gets to do what up above our heads.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Machines can't handle things they haven't seen many times before.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Many of the coolest gadgets this year are the same as the coolest gadgets last year—or the year before, even.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Most of them had never been abroad before.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, rich in history, before it's too late—as a last witness.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, less-educated parents.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

No, and he was away before I could get hold of the letter.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist attack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like "acting before thinking" and "persistence in reaching goals".

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show CES, and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco- Roman and Italian

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

So if you are a student who always reviews over black coffee, perhaps it would be sensible to prime yourself with a cup before the exam.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

So I've just got to do my best, and take a couple of seconds to look through the first few lines before I launch into something.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Some of these images include figures never seen before in France, such as a woman playing a stringed instrument, possibly a character from mythology.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Still, if late sleepers want to lose a few pounds, they can go to bed earlier than they usually do, thereby reducing their chances of taking snacks before bedtime.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The first thing every bank will do is study how much money I have and how much debt I have before they decide whether or not to lend me any more money.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The image which also contained novel descriptions of ants, fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The passengers often say that seeing animals makes them feel much better, and helps them to calm down before a flight.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

The researchers also note the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the well-being drop, and before the steepest well-being decline, which occurred in 2013.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

There is another reason why I want to chat with you before Monday.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

To be sure, the battery still has a long way to go before the nightly recharge completely replaces the weekly trip to the gas station.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Two years before, a nationwide study of college graduates had shown that more than a third had made no significant gains in such mental abilities during their school years.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Upon reflection, however, it is equally easy to feel like you have seen it all before.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

We have the ability to connect seemingly different threads to solve problems we've never seen before.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Weather conditions that drive this bizarre temperature surge have visited the Arctic before.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

We've talked about Hume before in class, right?

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

When we're too collaborative, we want everyone to agree with a decision before we proceed.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

without those masses of cooling sea ice, warm air brought to the Arctic can penetrate further inland than it ever did before.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

A dog's eating habit requires regular training before it is properly established.

2019年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong gonk, with its choking smog.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

A month before the marathon, the author made up his mind to run.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

According to the passage, children's fear and dislike of books may result from being made to read aloud before others.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

All bookings made before 12 September will receive free travel insurance for.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Also, sometimes pre-anger does not have to do with a lasting condition, but rather a temporary state before a triggering event has occurred.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Amazingly, Taylor had just taken a CPR course the day before.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

An active reader looks at each part of the graph before trying to interpret the data.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And if you want to make a change, please call me before march the 10th.

2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

And mp3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before?

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And, before I finish, let me just give you some advice which should make your stay more enjoyable.

2016年高考英语四川卷 听力 原文

As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

As recently reported in The Auk: ornithological advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch?

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Before birth, babies can tell the difference between loud sounds and voices.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Before choices are finalised, parents/careers will be asked to.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Before he knew it, Nicholas was lost, all alone! he didn't have food, water, a phone, or other supplies.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Before hearing from Zac, Adeline hadn't realized the medal was missing.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Before I knew it an hour had passed and it was time to move on to lunch.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Before long, the cat began to look ragged (蓬乱).

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Before modern medicine changed the laws of nature, many children died of common childhood diseases.

2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文

Before people retire, they usually plan to do a lot of great things, which they never had time to do while working.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

Before she could react, I gave her a big hug and told her she didn't need to keep it a secret from me.

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

Before starting their programme, students are expected to take a language test.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

Before Steve finished "melancholy flower, " his wife join didn't fully realize the value of her husband's music.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

Before that there was no freedom.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, t-shirts with the words "verbs are your friends" on them.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Before the training was introduced, 66% of set-freed condors died of electrocution.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Before we finish, can you offer any tips on becoming a better songwriter?

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

Before you came over, I never realized what a beautiful place I lived in.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Betty Byrnes remembered when her mother did not have time to wash all the dishes before an inspection.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But before I go, I'd like to invite you out for dinner — just to thank you for all the help you gave me during my three-month research work here.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

But before they can be assured, more efforts must be made, because the population of the crane in the wild is on the decline, and many other species appear headed toward extinction.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But there are still a few things I need to do before I go.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Currently, most ingredients must be changed to a paste (糊状物)before a printer can use them, and the printing process is quite time-consuming, because ingredients interact with each other in very complex ways.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Each time you get a headache, write down the date, the time, and what you were doing and feeling before your headache started.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

Even though we can't live forever, we are living a longer life than ever before.

2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文

First they collected sound data from 67 nests in four sites in queensland before and after hatching.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Fortunately, Natalie's family escaped to Brooklyn shortly before the city's bridge closed.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Four years before, she'd had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the antArctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

He had wrinkles next to his eyes when he smiled, yet his smile was still as heartwarming as before, the smile of a father who just wanted a good life for his family.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 完形填空 原文

Here, different types of tea are tasted by skilled tea tasters, before they're sold at each week's tea sale.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 听力 原文

However, just before the annual giant vegetable competitions, an enormous rabbit begins terrorising the town.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

I carefully extended a long carrot, with a keen eye on those teeth, and before long, there were times I would have the groundhog sitting next to a rabbit, both munching on carrots.

2015年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文

I encountered many hikers who were headed to a distant camp-ground with just enough time to get there before dark.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

I go back years ago, when we lived in a three-room house, when we got up before daylight and worked till after dark to make ends meet.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

I learned that Freddy did several jobs after his graduation from high school and remained the same caring person I met forty years before.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

I need to talk about my new program with him before he leaves.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

I needn't have worried before I came to the new school, for my classmates here are very friendly to me.

2015年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

I never felt an urge to learn any sign language before.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

If the line segment angled dawn, as between day 4 and day 5, it would mean that the bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

If you miss this chance, it may be years before you get another one.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 单项填空 原文

If you want time to have breakfast with your family, save some time the night before by setting out clothes, shoes, and bags.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In that case, eat before the flight, or an empty stomach will prevent you from sleeping.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 完形填空 B 原文

In the 1960s,while studying the volcanic history of Yellowstone national park,bob christiansen became puzzled about something that,oddly,had not troubled anyone before:he couldn't find the park's volcano.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It has been really cold lately and the school should consider letting the students in to get warm before the weather gets even colder.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

It has done it many times before.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It requires no training before employment.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

It was raining lightly when I arrived in Yangshuo just before dawn.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

Jeff had hunted in Lowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Just before september, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文

Leroy Chiao describes what happens even before you float out of your seat, your inner ear thinks you're falling.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Long before most of us even noticed what we now call "the environment," Buckminster Fuller said, "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting."

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Milk is also sugar-free and additive-free with nutritionists recommending skimmed milk as the best choice before bed as it is the least fattening.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

More students than ever before are taking a gap year before going to university.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

My room is a mess, but I needn't clean it before I go out tonight.

2017年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this determined human being with a passion and a mission.

2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

Nothing like this had ever been done before, and day after day I kept coming up with solutions, but none of them worked.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Now, in the second picture, you can see how tea is tasted in the tea trade center before it is sold.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Oh my! My car broke down, and I have to meet my aunt at the railway station before noon.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

One day soon after school had started, I said to them, " now I'm going to say something about reading that you have probably never heard a teacher say before.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

One day, Glenn Furst's mother put oil on the kitchen floor just before the inspector entered their house.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave socially.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Owain James, the president of the National Union of Students NUS, argued that the increase is evidence of student hardship – young people are being forced into earning money before finishing their education.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

People have stronger senses than before.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Several boys were crowding around chad, who declared with a proud smile that he sold six dozen the day before.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the south pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

She has turned down several invitations to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies after school she plans to take a year off to model full time before going to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文

She left before I could even make it to the door to offer my thanks.

2019年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

So, get an early start and try to be as productive as possible before lunch.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Some of you may have heard of him before.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Students must provide their presentations on CDs before Friday, March 23.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Students should have a proper attitude towards college before thinking about which college to attend, and it's never too early to make necessary preparations for a healthy and meaningful college experience.

2019年高考英语北京卷 语法填空 原文

Thank you george, but I've decided to travel a bit before finding another job.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

The baseline here is average global temperature before the start of the industrial age.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629,There were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

The theory also seems to explain the sudden and unexpected popularity of people was wearing, promoting or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern reader shave little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Big retailers must understand these differences before they can identify the segments of European wholesaling in which their particular abilities might unseat smaller but entrenched competitors.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google's on that count before.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an extreme intensity and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.

出自-2014年考研翻译原文

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the Kings for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Yet two years before Dicken’s birth, his mother’s father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

The history of the EEOB began long before its foundations were laid.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Bush all had offices in this building before becoming president.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

"Carry a book with you at all times" can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

"Speaking with your children before you make a real estate decision is wise, but I wouldn't base the purchasing decision solely on their opinions." Hampson said.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

After all, it was rumored that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a connection.

2020年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Asked about his choice of career, he says at high school he considered medical school before switching to electrical engineering.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Before each of their revelations, many thinkers at the time had sustained more ancient ways of thinking, including the geocentric view that the Earth was at the centre of our universe.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare, it is worth making an important distinction.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the kings for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922.

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice shows up: The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry while the woman must wait ten months.

2016年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Dr simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points.

2013年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Enjoy the beauty of the world around and keep the eyes open to see the possibilities before you.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Even before the invention of the electric light bulb, the author produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction that would foreshadow many ethical questions to be raised by technologies yet to come.

2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Even dairy farms, where robots do a small share of milking, have a long way to go before they're automated.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

For many people, especially those with serious health condition or family members with serious health conditions,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face, we can take a moment before buying.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If you've explored the area before, keep an eye out for familiar sights—you may be surprised how quickly identifying a distinctive rock or tree can restore your bearings.

2019年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In it, a mother is asked to interact with her child in a normal way before putting on a blank expression and not giving them any visual social feedback.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In many such cases, a cursory search for causes finds that some small group of people was wearing, promoting, or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000from its year ago level.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Now, rivals will be charging sales tax where they hadn't before.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

Some people like small talk in a meeting before digging into important matters, while other are more straightforward.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Stephenson suggested potential restrictions could include banning TV advertisements for foods high in fat, salt or sugar before 9 pm and limiting them on billboards or in cinemas.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Students also benefit from learning something about coding before they get to college, where introductory computer-science classes are packed to the brim, which can drive the less-experienced or-determined students away.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The tester would ask, "What's in here? "before looking into the container, smiling, and exclaiming, "Wow!"

2018年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Then there's the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" — it takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meant

2013年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

This advice is more relevant now than ever before, even as more parents want to embrace the ideas of their children, despite the current housing crunch.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Workers tended to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.

2010年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Yet two years before Dickens' birth, his mother's father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adverb
  • 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"

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。

反义词

prep.在...以前;先于

afterbehind

其他释义

behindafter