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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the bird set up such a loud scream that all the soldiers awoke, and they took him prisoner and carried him before the king.
-- As he took up the golden saddle the groom awoke and cried out so loud, that all the guards ran in and took him prisoner, and in the morning he was again brought before the court to be judged, and was sentenced to die.
-- Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, 'You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the fol-lowing papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit.
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- The de-clivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening.
-- But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased I heard one of them cry aloud Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I immediately cov-ered with my left hand.
-- But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three times, Langro dehul san (these words and the former were after-wards repeated and explained to me); whereupon, immediately, about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the strings that fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning it to the right, and of observing the person and gesture of him that was to speak.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In such terms, no doubt, substituting the words 'boys and girls,' for 'sir,' Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts.
-- Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.
-- We hope to have, before long, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact.
-- He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained.
-- No little Gradgrind had ever seen a face in the moon; it was up in the moon before it could speak distinctly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Harry--Harry--Harry--" I hastened to obey, but before I could reach his room, jumping three steps at a time, he was stamping his right foot upon the landing.
-- But my uncle was not a man to be kept waiting; so adjourning therefore all minor questions, I presented myself before him.
-- Steel rods, loadstones, glass pipes, and bottles of various acids were oftener before us than our meals.
-- But before I state the subject on which my uncle wished to confer with me, I must say a word about his personal appearance.
-- I was, in fact, fighting against an insurmountable difficulty; my brain was almost on fire; my eyes were strained with staring at the parchment; the whole absurd collection of letters appeared to dance before my vision in a number of black little groups.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was fulfilled before they knew what a promise it was.
-- Before Christmas of 1914 both their Ger-man young men were dead: whereupon the sisters wept, and loved the young men passionately, but underneath for-got them.
-- Breakfast was served in the bedrooms; Clifford never appeared before lunch, and the dining-room was a little dreary.
-- You'll see he'll be an English Man of Let-ters before he's done.
-- But he was keeper here for two years before the war...be-fore he joined up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since.
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