previous/foregoing/former/preceding/prior.导航词义：先前的

1. previous:adj. 先前的，以前的.指在当下所提及的事件、时间等之前发生或存在的，通常作定语。

She has a child from a previous marriage.

她前一次婚姻有一个孩子。

He discovered that he had met his new colleague before on three previous occasions.

他发现他以前见过他的新同事3次。

2. foregoing:adj. 前述的.指事物在讲述、文章等中刚刚提到的，常作定语。

the foregoing examples

上述例证

The foregoing conclusion is based on the following data.

上述结论是根据以下数据得出的。

3. former:adj. 以前的，从前的.指曾有过某种职务或地位的，也可指发生或存在于过去的。

He has a great interest in books about the former president.

他对和那位前总统有关的书十分感兴趣。

His income has been reduced to half its former amount due to the economic depression.

由于经济萧条，他的收入已减少到以前的一半。

4. preceding:adj. 在前的，前面的.指在所提时间、地点或部分之前发生或出现的。

The examples in the preceding chapter are used again later.

上一章的例子后面又再次被使用。

Their plan of seeing a movie together on Friday failed because they had a quarrel on the preceding day.

他们周五一起看电影的计划泡汤了，因为他们在前一天吵了一架。

5. prior:adj. 在前的，较早的.较正式用词，多指先于另一事物或某一时间前存在或安排的。

The discussion requires prior knowledge of the subject.

本次讨论要求事先了解该主题的相关知识。

No employee can be recruited without the prior approval of the manager.

事先未征得经理的同意不可以招收任何员工。

全部

1·The former option would be much more sensible.

前一种选择要明智得多。《牛津词典》

2·He was forced to turn for aid to his former enemy.

他被迫向他以前的敌人寻求帮助。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·He found it demeaning to work for his former employee.

他觉得为自己以前的雇员工作有失体面。《牛津词典》

4·She has been heard to make threats to her former lover.

有人听见她威胁她先前的恋人。《牛津词典》

5·Her father was the former editor of the Saturday Review.

她的父亲是《星期六评论》的前任主编。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·He was labelled (as) a traitor by his former colleagues.

他被以前的同事称为叛徒。《牛津词典》

7·Her article showed no charity towards her former friends.

她的文章对她以前的朋友毫不宽容。《牛津词典》

8·One former director embezzled $34 million in company funds.

一位前任主管挪用了3400万美元的公司资金。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·Fans were saddened to see the former champion play so badly.

看到以前的冠军表现如此差劲，球迷感到难过。《牛津词典》

10·They accused the former president of being a backseat driver.

他们谴责前总统是个专门干涉他人事务的人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

前

1·They accused the former president of being a backseat driver.

他们谴责前总统是个专门干涉他人事务的人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The bank had to pay to buy out most of the 200 former partners.

银行不得不花钱买断200个前合伙人的多数股权。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·No one wants to employ somebody who bad-mouths their former employer.

没有人愿意雇用说前雇主坏话的人。《牛津词典》

4·Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.

土耳其和希腊是反苏国家与前苏联之间的缓冲国。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The original elections were declared void by the former military ruler.

原来的选举被前军事首领宣布为无效。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

以前的

1·He was forced to turn for aid to his former enemy.

他被迫向他以前的敌人寻求帮助。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·He found it demeaning to work for his former employee.

他觉得为自己以前的雇员工作有失体面。《牛津词典》

3·He was labelled (as) a traitor by his former colleagues.

他被以前的同事称为叛徒。《牛津词典》

4·Her article showed no charity towards her former friends.

她的文章对她以前的朋友毫不宽容。《牛津词典》

5·Fans were saddened to see the former champion play so badly.

看到以前的冠军表现如此差劲，球迷感到难过。《牛津词典》

前任的

1·Her father was the former editor of the Saturday Review.

她的父亲是《星期六评论》的前任主编。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·One former director embezzled $34 million in company funds.

一位前任主管挪用了3400万美元的公司资金。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Newspapers have been fulsome in their praise of the former president.

报界对前任总统的赞扬过于恭维了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The centre will act as a clearinghouse for research projects for former nuclear scientists.

该中心将作为前任核科学家研究项目的信息搜集所。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The state's former commissioner of prisons once called Leonard the meanest man he'd ever seen.

这个州的前任监狱长曾经把伦纳德称为他所见过的最残忍的人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

从前的

1·The shadow said THOU to its former master.

影子把它从前的主人称为“你”。

2·The former inhabitant of the Canary Isles continued his dithyrambic.

从前的加那利群岛居民继续喝着酒。

3·Through the years, I'd run into former students who would provide updates on old classmates.

我常常碰见老学生，他们也向我提供从前班上的学生近况。

4·In such a short and simple statement, Hobbes turns my former priority list – socializing with family and friends, work, exercise, household chores, then rest – completely on its head.

仅仅是这样一个简单的语句，霍布斯让我从前的优先表——与家人和朋友社交，工作，锻炼，家务，然后休息——完全颠倒了过来。

5·But until then, with gold prices soaring, the hunt for gold is led by former farmers.

但是，尽管金价高涨，探寻金矿的事至今仍然由从前的农民作着。

前者的

1·If the former, what is the plan for the company?

如果是前者的话，公司有没什么计划？

2·Notice that the error handler for the latter undoes the work of the former so that data is not left in an inconsistent state.

请注意针对后者的错误处理程序可撤销前者所做的工作，以使数据不会处在一种不一致的状态。

3·If you want the former, limit your job search to thriving urban centers.

如果你想去前者，将你的工作搜索范围限制在城市中心。

4·This can serve as a means for both human contributors and software agents to provide updates, the former by way of a browser form.

这种方式可以作为通过操作人员或软件代理提供更新的一种方法，前者通过浏览器表单的方式。

5·Get more of the former and less of the latter by setting aside your need for their cash.

把你对金钱的需求先藏起来那么一会儿，以让他们获得更多的前者，更少的后者。

昔日的

1·He called on former Republican voters to return to the fold.

他号召昔日拥护共和党的选民重新回到支持共和党的行列。《牛津词典》

2·This area of former farmland was worked as a gravel pit until 1964.

这片昔日的农田在1964年前是被用作采砾坑的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·He put forth his hand to his former enemy in token of goodwill.

他伸手给昔日的仇敌表示友好。

4·Later that day, she received an angry email from her former flame.

当天她的昔日恋人就怒不可遏地发来了一封电邮。

5·Close by, an official blue plaque-denoting a building of significant historic interest-adorns another former pub, in whose upstairs gym Sir Henry used to train.

不远处，官方蓝色牌匾标记一个有重要历史意义的建筑，那是另一个昔日的酒吧，楼上是亨利爵士曾经训练的地方。

原来

1·When they came back to their former place, Heidi lost no time in setting out the dinner.

当他们回到原来的地方，海蒂立刻开始准备晚餐。

2·Sanitation was poor, and former labor camp inmates reported they had no changes of clothing during their incarceration and were rarely able to bathe or wash their clothing.

卫生条件非常简陋、而且原来的劳动营犯人报告说他们在禁闭期间没有衣服换，也很少有机会洗澡洗衣服。

3·I asked a pastor who works in the village whether there was a secret to creating trust among former enemies.

我问了一个在那里工作的牧师，在原来的敌人之间创造信任有什么秘密没有。

4·When he looked back he noticed the former grocery store cashier hiding behind a pile of canes.

回头一看，他发现杂货店原来那个收银员躲在一堆藤条后面。

5·That way, you could switch runtime platforms in the middle of a project and simply trade your former set of evaluation points for a set geared to the new platform.

按照那种方式，您可以在项目中间转向运行时平台并简单地将您原来的评估点集换成适应新平台的集合。

旧

1·It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on former tidal flats along the Yellow Sea.

它距首尔大约一小时车程，建在黄海沿岸的旧滩涂上。

2·When it comes to compensation, many residents have high expectations, saying they will not budge unless the money allows them to buy large apartments near their former homes.

谈到赔偿金问题时，很多住户都有很高的期望，称除非赔偿金足够他们在旧房子附近买套大公寓，否则他们不会让步。

3·Understandably, many of my former colleagues in Congress want to pass that bill now.

可以理解的是，我的许多议会的旧同事现在都希望通过这项议案。

4·Their desire to catch up by doing business with America and other former foes has helped dispel any lingering rancor.

他们希望通过跟美国和其它的旧敌的商业交流来迎头赶上，这种渴望已经帮助他们驱散了挥之不去的仇恨。

5·The set, in a former factory, was made to look like a 1950s FBI office, complete with dated newspapers, ashtrays, and file folders marked CONFIDENTIAL.

演出场景是，一间旧工厂被布置的像50年代FBI办公室，有很多过期的报纸、烟灰缸、标着“机密”的文件夹。

原先

1·Thus, we're a little bemused by the conversion of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a former advocate of offshore oil drilling who has now changed his mind.

因此，我们对佛罗里达州州长查理 克里斯特的转变有点困惑，他原先积极拥护进行海上石油钻探，现在已改弦易张。

2·After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 foreign investors rushed to snap up former state-owned and collective farms.

1991年前苏联解体后，投资者们争先恐后地攫取该国原先国有和集体所有的农场。

3·Mississippi also passed a law saying a black person could be forced to work for a white man — usually his former owner — if he had no other job.

密西西比州还通过一项法律，该法律规定，黑人如果没有其他什么工作可做的话，可以强迫其为白人工作，而这个白人通常是他们原先的主人。

4·“It looks like a plane spinning out of control, ” says David Vinjamuri, a former J.& J. marketing employee who now trains brand managers at his company, ThirdWay Brand Trainers.

大卫·维涅穆里表示。 大卫原先供职于强生公司销售部门，现在在自己的色德威品牌培训公司从事培训品牌经理的工作。

5·Being snowed in, he has to stay the night and is shown to an unused chamber where he finds books and graffiti from a former inhabitant of the farmhouse called Catherine.

因为被大雪困住，他不得不留下来过夜。他被带到了一间没人住的房间里，在这个房间里，他发现了原先住在农舍的一个名为凯瑟琳的人留下的一些书籍和随笔涂鸦。

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