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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Bunting, it seems, woke up suddenly in the stillness that comes before the dawn, with the strong impression that the door of their bedroom had opened and closed.
-- It was a minute or more before they entered the kitchen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that understood, there seems no harm in putting this strange story before the public in accordance, as I believe, with my uncle's intentions.
-- The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes; but it was, I think, the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking.
-- How jolly it all used to be!But I made a young ass of myself, played myself out before I was twenty-one.
-- I judged the schooner was running before the wind.
-- The patched and dirty spankers were tense before the wind, and up aloft the little ship seemed carrying every sail she had.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made his bound before he saw what it was he was jumping at, and then he tried to stop himself.
-- He grew up with the cubs, though they, of course, were grown wolves almost before he was a child.
-- I remember now if it is not a dream how, before I was a Wolf, I lay beside the Red Flow-er, and it was warm and pleasant.'
-- He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames.
-- But here is a debt to pay before I go.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.
-- There is one point on which we would wish to say a word before closing this preface.
-- Shakespeare t was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North IAmerica, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
-- The deepest sounds of the retiring and invisible column had ceased to be borne on the breeze to the listeners, and the latest straggler had already disappeared in pursuit; but there still remained the signs of another departure, before a log cabin of unusual size and accommodations, in front of which those sentinels paced their rounds, who were known to guard the person of the English general.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.
-- Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
-- It was often his delight, after his school was dis-missed in the afternoon, to stretch himself on the rich bed of clover bordering the little brook that whimpered by his school-house, and there con over old Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The artist, painter, poet, or musician, by his decoration, sublime or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetic sense; but that is akin to the sexual instinct, and shares its barbarity: he lays before you also the greater gift of himself.
-- It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
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