单词 | previously |
释义 | previously 1.(at time before)之前地;先前地 Previously, we'd been out for a drink.我们在此之前出去喝酒了。 Guyana's railways were previously owned by private companies.圭亚那的铁路之前是归私人公司所有的。 The contract was awarded to a previously unknown company.合同签给了一个之前并不知名的公司。 Previously she had very little time to work in her own garden.她之前很少有时间打理自己的花园。 2.(used to say how much earlier an event took place)(用于描述某事发生的时间有多么早) She had rented the flat from the council some fourteen months previously.大约14个月以前, 她就从市政部门租下了这套公寓。 They had officially retired ten years previously.他们早在10年前就正式退休了。 |
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