heretofore

英 [ˌhɪətuˈfɔː(r)] 美 [ˌhɪrtuˈfɔːr]

adv.  在这之前

TEM8

BNC.38480 / COCA.16177



牛津词典

adv.

  1. 在这之前
    before this time

    柯林斯词典

    1. ADV 此前;迄今
      Heretofore means 'before this time' or 'up to now'.
      1. They reported that clouds are an important and heretofore uninvestigated contributor to the climate.
        他们报告说,云是影响气候的一个重要因素,但迄今为止没有进行过研究。

    双语例句

    1. They reported that clouds are an important and heretofore uninvestigated contributor to the climate.
      他们报告说,云是影响气候的一个重要因素,但迄今为止没有进行过研究。
    2. The purchase represents a change in strategy for BMW, which heretofore has shunned financial ties with suppliers and points to its increased use in future BMWs.
      这标志着宝马做出了战略性的变革,因为宝马过去一向避免与供应商通过财务关系捆绑在一起,同时说明宝马未来会加大对碳纤维的使用。
    3. Prynne shall hereafter BE more amenable to just authority than you may have found her heretofore.
      而且我还向你保证,白兰太太将从此遵从执法长官,不会再象原先那样了。
    4. While EVMS is compatible with your existing storage arrangement, it also offers new, heretofore unavailable capabilities.
      EVMS不但与您现有的存储管理兼容,而且还提供了新的、您迄今为止未曾获得的功能。
    5. I have lost much time, and chosen badly heretofore, but let that pass; I was ignorant then, and could but take for best what seemed so.
      我要买,买!以前我做错了选择,失去了许多时间,就让它过去吧;当时我很无知,我只能选我觉得最好的东西。
    6. And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened, and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore.
      而这条忧郁的小溪也将在它那已经过于沉重的小小心灵中再加上另一个神秘的故事,它将继续潺潺向前,悄声低语,其音调比起先前的多少世纪绝不会有半点欢快。
    7. We've shown that the juice of these melons is a source of readily fermentable sugars, representing a heretofore untapped feedstock for ethanol biofuel production, he said.
      他说:我们发现西瓜汁中含有易发酵糖,这种原料在乙醇生物燃料的生产中尚未被利用过。
    8. Of the complicated European systems of national polity we have heretofore been independent.
      在复杂的欧洲各国体系中,我们保持独立。
    9. It was the same town as heretofore; but the same minister returned not from the forest.
      镇子还是原来的镇子;但从林中归来的牧师却不同了。
    10. I shall need, therefore, all the indulgence which I have heretofore experienced from my constituents;
      因此,我需要至今以来从我的选民中得到的所有谅解;
    11. Then in the middle of the nineteenth century the heretofore impervious wall of Chinese isolation was breached by the west.
      到了十九世纪中叶,西方突破了中国孤立的墙壁,那在以前是不可逾越的。
    12. These genetic tools are relatively new and have provided researchers with a heretofore unprecedented ways to precisely target and manipulate genetic activity.
      这些遗传工具先对新,为研究者提供迄今为止空前的方法,该方法精确定位和操纵遗传活动。
    13. Heretofore unforeseen technical training therefore becomes a requirement in many projects.
      因此,技术培训是必需的。
    14. Ah! Most gracious Monsieur heretofore the marquis, where is that emigrant?
      啊,最仁慈的前侯爵先生,那外满贵族在哪儿?
    15. Oh Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, I pray you be you true to me!
      啊,前侯爵先生,我祈祷你也以真诚待我!
    16. The parties heretofore acting as trustee
      在此以前作为受托人的当事人
    17. Besides, they begin to mention faith, of which there was heretofore marvelous silence.
      此外,他们开始提到的信仰,其中有迄今为止了不起的沉默。
    18. Your work heretofore has been done with the help of your conscious mind alone.
      至今为止你所做成功的所有事情都是你的意识思想所至。
    19. He argued, with more passion than heretofore, for the abolition of the tax.
      他用了迄今为止的最大热情,竭力争辩取消此税的主张。
    20. Heretofore Peter had not been fitted to do this, or even to understand its importance.
      在以前,彼得还不配作这种工作,甚至还不明白其重要性。
    21. Heretofore, doctors have tried low fat diets to reduce the cholesterol in the blood.
      迄今,医生一直试用低脂肪饮食来降低血液中的胆固醇。
    22. They are trying to bring into their sphere of influence countries that heretofore they have not been able to control.
      要控制这些国家,把过去不能控制的国家纳入他们的势力范围。
    23. Gardening? Whether backyard or balcony? Fills a heretofore unmet need.
      不管是在庭院或是阳台,园艺都填补了人们迄今未曾得到满足的需求。
    24. But, as no love shall heretofore be wasted.
      不过,对他而言,上一辈的爱不会被遗忘。
    25. Whispered melanie, staring uncertainly at the embattled doctor who heretofore had been perfect in her eyes.
      媚兰低声说,疑惑地凝视着那位早已设防的大夫,而他在她眼中一直是个完美无缺的人物。
    26. Heretofore all the campus gossip had seemed merely malicious and disrespectful.
      在这以前,学校里的一切流言蜚语似乎纯粹是恶意的、无礼的。
    27. When employed to engrave names on silver spoons, he now omitted a variety of fanciful flourishes that had heretofore distinguished his work in this kind.
      当他为顾客在银匙上刻姓名时,他不再用构成他以前这类作品特色的各种别出心裁的花体字了。
    28. Moreover, international law has confirmed the legitimacy of restriction on sovereignty, stretching its scope to domestic affairs and relatively narrowing the sovereignty heretofore exercised.
      另一方面,确认主权限制的合法性,将国际法的调整范围扩展至国家管辖领域,相对缩小了主权的行使范围,限制了对内最高权的行使。
    29. Heretofore the merchant has sold goods on credit, but from this time he will sell only for cash.
      以前那商人赊账卖东西,但从今以后他将以现金买卖。
    30. All the pieces line up in different ways than they have heretofore.
      所有的情节碎片将组合起来,展示出和迄今为止不一样的内容。

    英英释义

    adv

    1. used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
      1. So far he hasn't called
      2. the sun isn't up yet

      Synonym:    so farthus farup to nowhithertoas yetyettil nowuntil now