come before

1. This report takes a different tack from the 20 that have come before.
   这份报告和此前的20份报告采取的思路不同。
2. Consideration of the workers'health must come before my own professional pride.
   工人的健康比我自己的业务成就更重要。
3. In his mind, his work should come before his family.
   在他看来，工作应该在前，家庭在后。
4. This is one of the important problems that must come before the plenary meeting.
   这是需要提交全会讨论的重要问题之一。
5. It looks as if a funeral will come before the week is over.
   看来好像到不了这周结束葬礼就要来临了。
6. May my supplication come before you; deliver me according to your promise.
   愿我的恳求达到你面前，照你的话搭救我。
7. We were tired of waiting and hoped the bus would come before long.
   我们已经等得不耐烦了，希望公共汽车马上来。
8. I predict this will come before the end of2012.
   我预计这个结果将在2012年底实现。
9. I had thought that he would come before seven o'clock.
   我原以为他会十一点以前来的。
10. I should have come before.
    我应该早一点来。
11. The day will come before you know it.
    那一天转眼就会到的。
12. We come before you in solidarity.
    我们团结一致地来到大家面前。
13. Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.
    我们在天上的父，今天我们来到你的面前，祈求你的宽恕，寻求你的指引和带领。
14. We'll wait for you if you come before six o'clock.
    如果你六点钟以前来我们就等你。
15. Felix in to the Philippines did not come before you here?
    Felix在去菲律宾前有没有来您这儿？
16. The answer would come before sundown.
    日落前就可以见分晓了。
17. I'll come before the closing time.
    在打烊之前我会来的。
18. The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.
    耶和华听了我的恳求。耶和华必收纳我的祷告。
19. If you don't come before this, I'm afraid we'll have to cancel the reservation.
    如果佻到时候不来，恐怕我们只好取消预订。
20. Who dares come before me?
    谁这么大胆到我这里来了？
21. He will come before long.
    他不久之后会到。
22. To come before that would have been murder.
    来早了就会被杀掉。
23. He'll come before dinner, if he comes at all.
    他要是来了，准在饭前来。
24. The light begun to come before we got to the foot of the island.
    我们到岛尾以前，天开始亮了起来。
25. How have right against the face come before a and I look the same "people"?
    前面怎么有迎面过来一个和我长相一样的“人”？
26. I don't recollect having seen him before. The answer would come before sundown.
    我记不起以前曾见过他。日落前就可以见分晓了。
27. Have you all come before too?
    你们都来过这儿么？
28. I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before.
    我来柏林之前，我的很多同胞已来过此地。
29. May my prayer come before you; rescue me as you have promised.
    愿我的祈求到达你的面前，求你照你的诺言救我脱险。
30. A new year and Christmas will come before long.
    新年和圣诞节即将来临。

verb

1. be the predecessor of
   1. Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands

   Synonym:    precede