(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.
德洛丽丝整理
双语例句
The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
But I am not going to fool with him beforehand. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
But here there was the difficulty of finding room, so many things having been taken in beforehand. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
One or another on 'em,' said the turnkey, repudiating beforehand the refusal of all his suggestions. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Now, you know, I am certain of that, beforehand. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
Pleasure not known beforehand is half wasted; to anticipate it is to double it. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Nobody who had not known it beforehand would have suspected that there was a living creature in the room. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
But don't disappoint yourself beforehand, Tom. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
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. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
I shall try to take care of it beforehand, but he might deceive me. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
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.维莱特.
Besides, there is a man's character beforehand to speak for him. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
You couldn't put the thing better--couldn't put it better, beforehand, you know. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
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. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
He had felt no bond beforehand to this woman who had spoiled the ideal treasure of his life, and he held himself blameless. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
He was altogether discontented with the result of a contrivance which had cost him some secret humiliation beforehand. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Yet this result, which she took to be a mutual impression, called falling in love, was just what Rosamond had contemplated beforehand. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
He came to take leave of us; he had settled to do so beforehand. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
She had omitted to make a memorandum beforehand of the day on which she took the journey. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
I saw in this, a reason for her being beforehand assigned to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
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.维莱特.
My uncle brought me the letter that contained it; he knew about it beforehand. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
I am going on to the end, and I have told you beforehand what the end is. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
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. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
Mr. Martin, I imagine, has his fortune entirely to makecannot be at all beforehand with the world. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
The time when one would be due where we lay, wherever that might be, could be calculated pretty nearly, if we made inquiries beforehand. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
We placed the candles and opened the doors beforehand. 威尔基·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. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.