ere
/eə(r)/preposition & conjunction
- poetic /literary or archaic before (in time)〈诗/文, 古〉在…之前：
as prep. we hope you will return ere long我们希望你很快回来
as conjunction I was driven for some half mile ere we stopped.等到我们把汽车停下来的时候我已被汽车带到了约半英里以外的地方。
词源
Old English ǣr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch eer and German eher.