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before —前 (almost always used) ()之前 ()Examples:Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)—Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war—Advent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)—Lucifer (Satan's name before his Fall in Jewish and Christian mythology)—seek nothing but profit (idiom); personal profit before everything—Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (save all souls before accepting Bodhi)—Archaean (geological eon before 2500m years ago)—peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence—surpass all others of its kind before and since—Palm Sunday (Christian Festival one week before Easter)—official who dares speak frankly before the emperor—Zunyi conference of January 1935 before the Long March—stop before going too far (idiom); to stop while one can—pre-Cambrian, geological period before c. 540m years ago—bamboo and silk writing materials (before paper)—prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc indicate familiarity—Dipamkara Buddha, the former Buddha before Shakyamuni Buddha and the bringer of lights—pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)—signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)—lit. punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again—punctuation of a sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)—before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers—before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved—(used after a term, mark a pause before defining the term)—prevent troubles before the event (idiom); to forestall—fig. those who spend their monthly income even before they earn their next salary (slang)—open pants (for infants before toilet training)—yolk sac (ectodermal cells attaching fetus uterus before the development of the placenta)—die before one's allotted lifespan has run its course [idiom.]— |