long before

基本解释

• 很早以前；在…以前很久

英汉例句

雙語例句

• He is someone I had my eye on long before he went there.
  很久以前，在他加盟曼城之前他就是我注意的對象了。
• He was right about me being an atheist, but I was an atheist long before I was any kind of "scientist".
  他是正確的，我確實是無神論者，但我早在成爲任何種類的“科學家”之前，就已經是一位無神論者了。
• You may have thought you decided whether to have tea or coffee this morning, for example, but the decision may have been made long before you were aware of it.
  擧例說，你可能認爲今天早晨是你做出喝茶或是喝咖啡的決定，但實際上這個決定在你意識到之前很久可能就已經確定。

原聲例句

• The state is named after an American Indian tribe a recognition of the groups that came long before the Pilgrims.
• Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.
  早在彌爾頓應對這個問題之前，基督教徒們就已經花了成百上千年，爲這兩個概唸之間邏輯上的前後矛盾感到睏惑。
  耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
• Behaviorism is a school of thought that was there long before Skinner, championed by psychologists like John Watson, for instance.
  行爲主義學派,遠在斯金納提出他的理論之前就已經存在，受到了衆多心理學家的擁護,比如約翰·華生。
  耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節選

權威例句

• In 1954, long before there was a Lipper or a Morningstar, the magazine published its first performance ranking.
  FORBES: The Prevalence of Fads

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词组短语

短語

• Long Gong Before Daylight 黎明之前
• Long Years Before 很多年前
• long time before 很久以前
• Long Gone Before Daylight 黎明之前;唱片名;早已逝去之前;遙遠的黎明
• A Long Time Before 良久才

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