| 释义 |
before —前 (almost always used) 之前 Examples:Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (save all souls before accepting Bodhi)—Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)—late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty—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)—put one's own safety before matters of principle—think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully—Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (save all souls before accepting Bodhi)—peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence—counting one's chickens before they are hatched—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)—place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it—Dipamkara Buddha, the former Buddha before Shakyamuni Buddha and the bringer of lights—Yama(possibly 3rd century AD), Japanese state before written records began in 7th century AD, its real dating is controversial—signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)—Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established—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—person who performs the libation before a banquet—sit and await success or failure (idiom); to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides—mass seizure of food from landlords during famines before liberation—make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch—fig. those who spend their monthly income even before they earn their next salary (slang)—prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or indicate affection or familiarity— |