before是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. (指时间) 在…以前， 在. …前面， 在…之前，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- 'Nay, uncle, but you never came to see me before that happened.
-- Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that peo-ple ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way.
-- In the main street at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture.
-- He did pause, with a moment's irresolution, before he shut the door; and he did look cautiously behind it first, as if he half-expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley's pigtail sticking out into the hall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Book the First Recalled to Life A tale of two citiesI The Period t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ithe age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ev-erything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present peri-od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-- Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures the creatures of this chronicle among the rest along the roads that lay before them.
-- A tale of two citiesII The Mail t was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in INovember, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
-- So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, A tale of two citiesthat Friday night in November, one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
-- Then the strong-rooms underground, at Tellson's, with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger (and it was not a little that he knew about them), opened before him, and he went in among them with the great keys and the fee-bly-burning candle, and found them safe, and strong, and sound, and still, just as he had last seen them.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sure, he thought he had nothing to risk in his own person; but yet, he would prefer sending somebody else, to bring him intelligence about the weavers, and their work, before he troubled himself in the affair.
-- However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and continued to work with as much ap-parent diligence as before at their empty looms.
-- The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that everyone might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit.
-- The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit; the Emperor turn-ing round, from side to side, before the looking glass.
-- 'Let us see what is in the other casket, before we get into a bad humor,' said the Emperor.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen- maid, and the coachman had given warning.
-- Chapter 4 Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something.
-- Levin was not a disreputable chum, but Oblonsky, with his ready tact, felt that Levin fancied he might not care to show his intimacy with him before his subordinates, and so he made haste to take him off into his room.
-- "Yes, my dear boy," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, nodding his head, "he's a lucky fellow!Over six thousand acres in the Karazinsky district; everything before him; and what youth and vigor!Not like some of us."
-- He walked on a few steps, and the skating-ground lay open before his eyes, and at once, amidst all the skaters, he knew her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.
-- IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEARPhileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.
-- The perusal of this paper absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four, whilst the Standard, his next task, occupied him till the dinner hour.
-- Dinner passed as breakfast had done, and Mr. Fogg re-appeared in the reading-room and sat down to the Pall Mall at twenty minutes before six.
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