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
- 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。 - 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！ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - But, as no love shall heretofore be wasted.
不过，对他而言，上一辈的爱不会被遗忘。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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；