before

其他意思

1. prep. 在...之前

   If something happens before a particular date, time, or event, it happens earlier than that date, time, or event.

   • Annie was born a few weeks before Christmas

2. conj. 在...之前

   If you do something before someone else can do something, you do it when they have not yet done it.

   • Before Gallacher could catch up with the ball, Nadlovu had beaten him to it.

3. adv. 在前

   You use before when you are talking about time. For example, if something happened the day before a particular date or event, it happened during the previous day.

   • The war had ended only a month or so before.