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
- 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！ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。