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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the first months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried, never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public.
-- But the idea of a war machine fell before the declaration of Governments.
-- Impatience grew apace, when, on the 2nd of July, they learned that a steamer of the line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean.
-- Three hours before the Abraham Lincoln left Brooklyn pier, I received a letter worded as follows:To M. ARONNAX, Professor in the Museum of Paris, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
-- I FORM MY RESOLUTIONThree seconds before the arrival of J.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gudrun paused for some moments, coldly, before answering.
-- Over the shrubs, before her, were the pale roofs and tower of the old church.
-- She loved to recognise their various characteristics, to place them in their true light, give them their own surroundings, settle them for ever as they passed before her along the path to the church.
-- The bride was quite demure on the arm of the bridegroom, who stared up into the sky before him, shutting and opening his eyes unconsciously, as if he were neither here nor there.
-- Again Hermione made a pause, domineering and cold, before she replied: "Yes, I think it is always wrong to provoke a spirit of rivalry.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date '1500,' and the name 'Hareton Earnshaw.'
-- Such an individual seated in his arm chair, his mug of ale frothing on the round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or six miles among these hills, if you go at th e right time after dinner.
-- They won't meddle with persons who touch nothing,' he remarked, putting the bottle before me, and restoring the displaced table.
-- I found him very intelligent on the topics we touched; and before I went home, I was encouraged so far as to volunteer another visit to morrow.
-- Her position before was sheltered from the light; now, I had a distinct view of her whole figure and countenance.
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：
-- And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly.
-- So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than she had lifted the Queen, that she mightn't take his breath away: but, before she put him on the table, she thought she might as well dust him a little, he was so covered with ashes.
-- thought Alice, suddenly jumping up, 'if I don't make haste I shall have to go back through the Looking-glass, before I've seen what the rest of the house is like!Let's have a look at the garden first!'
-- Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike.
-- The man who came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down the morning before at the Royal George, that he had inquired what inns there were along the coast, and hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and described as lonely, had chosen it from the others for his place of residence.
-- When a seaman did put up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.
-- Often enough when the first of the month came round and I applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for "the seafaring man with one leg."
-- I remember the appearance of his coat, which he patched himself upstairs in his room, and which, before the end, was nothing but patches.
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