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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It was not exactly the fault of the hut," she observed in a tone which showed her to be that novelty among women one who finished a thought before beginning the sentence which was to convey it.
-- He was endeavouring to catch and appreciate the sensation of being thus with her, his head upon her dress, before the event passed on into the heap of bygone things.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is dramatic in the 莽卢卢 1 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may perhaps be shed _intra et extra muros_ before it is over.
-- But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a picture for which the mind cannot be too well prepared by the contemplation of sad hues and sober images.
-- Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors' lives.
-- "Poor dear!she spent on it all the money she had saved before we were married.
-- Vauquer lay down to rest on the day of M. Goriot's installation, her heart, like a larded partridge, sweltered before the fire of a burning desire to shake off the shroud of Vauquer and rise again as Goriot.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
-- If I suc-ceed, many, many months, perhaps years, will pass before you and I may meet.
-- He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing her-self at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union.
-- 13Letter 4To Mrs. Saville, England August 5th, 17 So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your posses-sion.
-- About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'd have had to come home before the term was out anyway."
-- The Yankees may be scared of us, but after theway General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand brandedas cowards before the whole world.
-- I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would haveruined the Christmas parties, too.
-- Just before we got home that new stallion Ma got in Kentucky last month wasbrought in, and the place was in a stew.
-- And just before we got home, he'd about kicked the stable downand half-killed Strawberry, Ma's old stallion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
-- When the church came to itself,--for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously.
-- For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.
-- Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
-- Joe got off with half a pint; but was made to swallow that (much to his disturbance, as he sat slowly munching and meditating before the fire), "because he had had a turn."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.
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