long before

基本解释

• 很早以前；在…以前很久

英汉例句

双语例句

• 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对象了。
• He was right about me being an atheist, but I was an atheist long before I was any kind of "scientist".
  他是正确的，我确实是无神论者，但我早在成为任何种类的“科学家”之前，就已经是一位无神论者了。
• 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.
  举例说，你可能认为今天早晨是你做出喝茶或是喝咖啡的决定，但实际上这个决定在你意识到之前很久可能就已经确定。

原声例句

• 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.
  早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。
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• Behaviorism is a school of thought that was there long before Skinner, championed by psychologists like John Watson, for instance.
  行为主义学派,远在斯金纳提出他的理论之前就已经存在，受到了众多心理学家的拥护,比如约翰·华生。
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权威例句

• In 1954, long before there was a Lipper or a Morningstar, the magazine published its first performance ranking.
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词组短语

短语

• 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;遥远的黎明
• A Long Time Before 良久才

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