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beforehand

/bih-fawr-hand, -fohr-/US // bɪˈfɔrˌhænd, -ˈfoʊr- //UK // (bɪˈfɔːˌhænd) //

预先,事先,事前,预先声明

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : in anticipation; in advance; ahead of time: We should have made reservations beforehand. I hope to be beforehand with my report.

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Examples

  • Showings will include a special message from Seth Rogen that will play beforehand.

  • A call made to police beforehand described Rice as “a guy with a pistol” on a swing set, but said it was “probably fake.”

  • On the fashion shoot beforehand, he was puppyish energy and charm—no diva-ishness, just fast, funny, and co-operative.

  • The only other option is to use laser-guided bombs, but even then the target has to be correctly indentified beforehand.

  • Are you a writer who sits down and outlines things beforehand?

  • They had read the placards, they wished to see what the placards had announced, and to make their choice beforehand.

  • Once or twice she took a quiet dinner there alone, having instructed Celestine beforehand to prepare no dinner at home.

  • When they are ready they hasten in a crowd to the warehouse, where they have entered into a contract beforehand.

  • On this occasion he was well beforehand with the work, and sent in the cantata to the committee by the 1st of April.

  • Unless the accounts are made up beforehand, parsons can't avail much at the twelfth hour.