Beforehand
[bɪ'fɔːhænd] or [bɪ'fɔrhænd]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
(adv.) By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.
(a.) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
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同義詞及近義詞:
ad. Previously, in anticipation, in advance.
a. Forehanded, in comfortable circumstances (as respects property), well off, well to do.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But I am not going to fool with him beforehand. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But here there was the difficulty of finding room, so many things having been taken in beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- One or another on 'em,' said the turnkey, repudiating beforehand the refusal of all his suggestions. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Now, you know, I am certain of that, beforehand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Pleasure not known beforehand is half wasted; to anticipate it is to double it. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Nobody who had not known it beforehand would have suspected that there was a living creature in the room. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But don't disappoint yourself beforehand, Tom. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I have no doubt of his having, at times, considerable influence; but it may be perfectly impossible for him to know beforehand _when_ it will be. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I shall try to take care of it beforehand, but he might deceive me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil--I, the prostrate votary--felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Besides, there is a man's character beforehand to speak for him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You couldn't put the thing better--couldn't put it better, beforehand, you know. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I should like him to tell me how I could bear up at Fair time, if I didn't take strengthening medicine for a month beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- He had felt no bond beforehand to this woman who had spoiled the ideal treasure of his life, and he held himself blameless. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He was altogether discontented with the result of a contrivance which had cost him some secret humiliation beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Yet this result, which she took to be a mutual impression, called falling in love, was just what Rosamond had contemplated beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He came to take leave of us; he had settled to do so beforehand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She had omitted to make a memorandum beforehand of the day on which she took the journey. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I saw in this, a reason for her being beforehand assigned to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- You need not fall in love with _that_ lady, I said, because, I tell you beforehand, you might die at her feet, and she would not love you again. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- My uncle brought me the letter that contained it; he knew about it beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I am going on to the end, and I have told you beforehand what the end is. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Margaret began to wonder whether all offers were as unexpected beforehand,--as distressing at the time of their occurrence, as the two she had had. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Mr. Martin, I imagine, has his fortune entirely to makecannot be at all beforehand with the world. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The time when one would be due where we lay, wherever that might be, could be calculated pretty nearly, if we made inquiries beforehand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- We placed the candles and opened the doors beforehand. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I know beforehand that nothing you, or anyone, can tell me, will show my husband's noble heart in any other light than one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
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