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
- The purchase represents a change in strategy for BMW, which heretofore has shunned financial ties with suppliers and points to its increased use in future BMWs.
这标志着宝马做出了战略性的变革,因为宝马过去一向避免与供应商通过财务关系捆绑在一起,同时说明宝马未来会加大对碳纤维的使用。 - 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。 - Heretofore Peter had not been fitted to do this, or even to understand its importance.
在以前,彼得还不配作这种工作,甚至还不明白其重要性。 - Of the complicated European systems of national polity we have heretofore been independent.
在复杂的欧洲各国体系中,我们保持独立。 - All the pieces line up in different ways than they have heretofore.
所有的情节碎片将组合起来,展示出和迄今为止不一样的内容。 - 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。 - But, as no love shall heretofore be wasted.
不过,对他而言,上一辈的爱不会被遗忘。 - The parties heretofore acting as trustee
在此以前作为受托人的当事人 - I have lost much time, and chosen badly heretofore, but let that pass; I was ignorant then, and could but take for best what seemed so.
我要买,买!以前我做错了选择,失去了许多时间,就让它过去吧;当时我很无知,我只能选我觉得最好的东西。 - We've shown that the juice of these melons is a source of readily fermentable sugars, representing a heretofore untapped feedstock for ethanol biofuel production, he said.
他说:我们发现西瓜汁中含有易发酵糖,这种原料在乙醇生物燃料的生产中尚未被利用过。