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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By an ingenious device he sets before the rescuers a search which compels their circumnavigation of the globe around a certain parallel of the southern hemisphere.
-- Look at those petrifactions all over it, these different substances almost turned to mineral, we might say, through the action of the salt water!This waif had been tossing about in the ocean a long time before the shark swallowed it."
-- "But it is a lucky thing the shark swallowed them, I must say," added Glenarvan, "for the bottle would have sunk to the bottom before long with such a cork as this."
-- They had to get a hammer before this could be done, though, for the stony material had acquired the hardness of granite.
-- These were carefully removed by Lord Glenarvan, and separated and spread out on the table before the eager gaze of his wife and friends.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- are placed before that hospital the words 'Charing Cross' very naturally suggest themselves.'
-- 'I can only think of the obvious conclusion that the man has practised in town before going to the country.'
-- Then, as it would seem, he became as one that hath a devil, for, rushing down the stairs into the dining-hall, he sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenchers flying before him, and he cried aloud before all the compa-ny that he would that very night render his body and soul to the Powers of Evil if he might but overtake the wench.
-- These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slink-ing away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
-- It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that date.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tell you I hadn't a notion of what was about me or before me or be-low my feet all the way; I saw nothing whatever.
-- I liked you especially when you told us about the diamond earrings; but I liked you before that as well, though you have such a dark-clouded sort of face.
-- 'That's true enough, he'll have lots before evening!'
-- I assure you, I saw the sight a month ago and it's dancing before my eyes to this moment.
-- You may place a soldier before a cannon's mouth in battle, and fire upon him and he will still hope.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They stood fearfully and reverently before him, and never a word did they speak, but he knew them and said, 'Welcome, heralds, messengers of gods and men; draw near; my quarrel is not with you but with Agamemnon who has sent you for the girl Briseis.
-- Agamemnon is mad with rage and knows not how to look before and after that the Achae-ans may fight by their ships in safety.'
-- Forthwith she rose as it were a grey mist out of the waves, sat down before him as he stood weeping, caressed him with her hand, and said, 'My son, why are you weeping?
-- She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying: 'Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early.
-- At this Jove was much troubled and answered, 'I shall have trouble if you set me quarrelling with Juno, for she will provoke me with her taunting speeches; even now she is al-ways railing at me before the other gods and accusing me of giving aid to the Trojans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He glanced inquiringly at the window before he removed his serviette, and resumed his meal.
-- Her visitor, she saw as she opened the door, was seated in the armchair before the fire, dozing it would seem, with his bandaged head drooping on one side.
-- If there's damage done, put it down in the bill," and he went on ticking a list in the exercise book before him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio hesitated a moment before answering, for he remembered the good Fairy, o ld Geppetto, and the advice of the Talking Cricket.
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