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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The affair which formed its subject, and which was town talk, had occurred three days before at the Bank of England.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was, like most inhabitants of Elk Mills before the Slavo- Italian immigration, a Typical Pure-bred Anglo-Saxon American, which means that he was a union of German, French, Scotch, Irish, perhaps a little Spanish, conceivably a little of the strains lumped together as "Jewish," and a great deal of English, which is itself a combination of primitive Briton, Celt, Phoenician, Roman, German, Dane, and Swede.
-- Go college before go medical school.
-- The Doc stood before the case, waving an enormous but shaky forefinger.
-- The co-eds murmured that he "looked so romantic," but as this was before the invention of sex and the era of petting- parties, they merely talked about him at a distance, and he did not know that he could have been a hero of amours.
-- He sat before fires and stroked his collie and chuckled in his beard.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A brilliant and successful career seemed to open before him, but those hopes were soon dashed.
-- Being the third in the row, I concluded I had only a few minutes of life before me.
-- He had forgotten the note of that bell, and now its peculiar tinkle seemed to remind him of something and to bring it clearly before him芒聙娄.
-- In the corner a light was burning before a small ikon.
-- The month was up the day before yesterday.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declaredby the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood whohad taken a lively interest in me several months before there wasany possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that Iwas destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I wasprivileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitablyattaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender,born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
-- He died a year afterwards, and, as I havesaid, six months before I came into the world.
-- My mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and verylow in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and despondingheavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger, who wasalready welcomed by some grosses of prophetic pins in a drawerupstairs, to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrival;my mother, I say, was sitting by the fire, that bright, windy Marchafternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful of ever comingalive out of the trial that was before her, when, lifting her eyes asshe dried them, to the window opposite, she saw a strange ladycoming up the garden.
-- These allied powers were considerably astonished, when theyarrived within a few minutes of each other, to find an unknownlady of portentous appearance sitting before the fire, with herbonnet tied over her left arm, stopping her ears with jewellers'cotton.
-- Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a verydragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as acredible witness, reported next day, that happening to peep in atthe parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried byMiss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, andpounced upon before he could make his escape.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mild-ness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but di-rected chiefly by her own.
-- Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October 6 Emmaand November evening must be struggled through at Hart-field, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.
-- She was short, 26 Emmaplump, and fair, with a fine bloom, blue eyes, light hair, reg-ular features, and a look of great sweetness, and, before the end of the evening, Emma was as much pleased with her manners as her person, and quite determined to continue the acquaintance.
-- She was so busy in admiring those soft blue eyes, in talk-ing and listening, and forming all these schemes in the in-betweens, that the evening flew away at a very unusual rate; and the supper-table, which always closed such par-ties, and for which she had been used to sit and watch the due time, was all set out and ready, and moved forwards to the fire, before she was aware.
-- But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the El-egant Extracts, very entertaining.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly.
-- He carried a lantern in his hand, and closing the door behind him, came forward and busied himself about this nook of the field for nearly twenty minutes, the lantern light appearing and disappearing here and there, and brightening him or darkening him as he stood before or behind it.
-- The little speck of life he placed on a wisp of hay before the small stove, where a can of milk was simmering.
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