heretofore
英 [ˌhɪətuˈfɔː(r)]
美 [ˌhɪrtuˈfɔːr]
adv. 在这之前
BNC.38480 / COCA.16177
牛津词典
adv.
- 在这之前
before this time
柯林斯词典
- ADV 此前;迄今
Heretoforemeans 'before this time' or 'up to now'.- 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。
- They reported that clouds are an important and heretofore uninvestigated contributor to the climate.
英英释义
adv
- used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
- So far he hasn't called
- the sun isn't up yet
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。