beforehand

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be·fore·hand /bɪˈfɔːhænd $ -ˈfɔːr-/ adverbadv

BEFOREbefore something else happens or is done 事先，预先，事前

The police need to be briefed beforehand on how to deal with this sort of situation.

需要事先告诉警察这种情况怎样处理。

When you give a speech, it’s natural to feel nervous beforehand.

你在演讲之前感到紧张是很自然的。

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beforehand• Almost all the food was prepared beforehand.• Buyer behaviour must, therefore, be ascertained beforehand.• Evidently this was not in the agreement made beforehand.• Should there be wider discussion of these issues beforehand?• You can brown it in hot fat beforehand if you really want to.• As any Economics 101 student could have warned beforehand, none of these schemes has had more than a marginal impact.• We had agreed beforehand not to tell anyone else about our plans.• She says she goes into training beforehand, taking extra vitamins, doing extra aerobics and eating right.• You should have told me beforehand that you might be late.• You are given drugs about half an hour beforehand then you're wheeled into a big room which is all tiled.

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