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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true I knew him more intimately than most: I met him first before ever he became a painter, and I saw him not infrequently during the difficult years he spent in Paris; but I do not suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Tahiti.
-- I was conscious of my ignorance, and if Mrs. Strickland was a well-known writer I thought it as well to ascertain the fact before I spoke to her.
-- But on my last day in town, coming out of the Stores, I met her with her son and daughter; like myself, she had been making her final purchases before leaving London, and we were both hot and tired.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the inevitable catastrophe could only be retarded, and if land did not appear before night, voyagers, car, and balloon must to a certainty vanish beneath the waves.
-- "A little, but it will not be long before it falls again."
-- An hour!Might not the balloon before that be emptied of all the fluid it yet retained?
-- When Neb heard that his master had been made prisoner, he left Massachusetts without hesitating an instant, arrived before Richmond, and by dint of stratagem and shrewdness, after having risked his life twenty times over, managed to penetrate into the besieged town.
-- His forces, united to those of Butler, had as yet been unsuccessful before Richmond, and nothing gave the prisoners any hope of a speedy deliverance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance, my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till I came up knocked at it when I joined her.
-- It was an old man with long grey hair, whose face and figure as he held the light above his head and looked before him as he approached, I could plainly see.
-- It checks their confidence and simplicity two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.'
-- Ah!It's a weary life for an old man a weary, weary life but there is a great end to gain and that I keep before me.'
-- The old man showed by his face that he plainly understood the cause of my hesitation, but he merely signed to me with an inclination of the head to pass out of the room before him, and remained silent.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She approached with firm step, and, facing about, stood before the warden.
-- Before his departure he thrust a hundred ruble bill into her hand.
-- There was the choice of two things before her; either the humiliating occupation of a servant, with the certain unwelcome attentions of the men, or a secure, quiet and legitimatized position of everybody's mistress.
-- He was gazing before him, contemplating the events of the previous day and considering what he had before him for that day.
-- Here he received a cold-water douche, and after rubbing his white and muscular body with coarse towels and donning his white linen, he seated himself before the mirror and began to brush his short, curly beard and the thinning curls of his forehead.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement."
-- "Some sleight-of-hand trick or other," said the Medical Man, and Filby tried to tell us about a conjuror he had seen at Burslem, but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and Filby's anecdote collapsed.
-- "But," said I, "If it travelled into the past it would have been visible when we came first into this room; and last Thursday when we were here; and the Thursday before that; and so forth!"
-- I remember vividly the flickering light, his queer, broad head in silhouette, the dance of the shadows, how we all followed him, puzzled but incredulous, and how there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes.
-- The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now don't make any more excuses, but listen!Number two: you pulled Snowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milk before her!What, you were thirsty, were you?
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