| 释义 |
Examples:Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc—former Tibetan province of Kham, now split between Tibet and Sichuan—Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet Union)—Kaifeng prefecture level city in Henan, old capital of Northern Song, former provincial capital of Henan—Benazir Bhut(1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda—(Webster) Hubbell (former Associate Attorney-General)—hunting ground exclusively kept for emperor or nobility (in former times)—Stephanopoulos (e.g. former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos)—(in former times) banknote with a value in silver—middle period of a tripartite provincial exam (in former times)—policeman (in China's former foreign concessions)—pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)—lit. punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again—Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader—escudo (Spanish and Portugese: shield), former currency of Portugal and other countries—lit. punish a little to prevent a lot (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent large scale repetition—(in former times) coming-of-age ceremony at 20 years—Chahar Province (former province in North China existing from 1912-1936)—robust and prosperous (a compliment in former times)—the Lithuanian republic, former Baltic Soviet republic—a widow (a widow's way of referring herself in former times)—yellow flower (cosmetic powder used on women's forehead in former times)—Azerbaijan, former Soviet Republic and region of northwest Iran in Caucasus— |