高中英语常用词组 long before
释义:
long before 很早以前;在…以前很久
例句:
There were badgers here, I've been told, long before that same city ever came to be.
我听说,在同样的那座城市出现很久以前,这里就有獾子了。
He might appear to have died with a bang, but he had long before died with a whimper.
他好像是死于一声枪响,但很早以前,他就已经在一声呜咽中死去了。
Long before Man lived on the Earth, there were fishes, reptiles, birds, insects, and some mammals.
在人类出现很早以前,地球上就出现了鱼类、爬虫类、鸟类和一些哺乳动物。
We ran across open ground, then scrambled over broken rock that men had ejected from the mountain long before.
我们跑着穿过空地,然后攀登越过人们在很久以前从山上搬下来的碎石块。
He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.
他似乎早在现代经济学发展之前就对现代社会经济理论有所了解。
It's understandable that this was before 1879 which was when Red Cliff was founded, and long before Harvard became co-ed.
可以理解的是,那是1879年之前,雷德克利夫学院刚成立,并且远在哈佛成为男女合校之前。