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
- 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 are trying to bring into their sphere of influence countries that heretofore they have not been able to control.
要控制这些国家，把过去不能控制的国家纳入他们的势力范围。 - 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。 - Heretofore unforeseen technical training therefore becomes a requirement in many projects.
因此，技术培训是必需的。 - But, as no love shall heretofore be wasted.
不过，对他而言，上一辈的爱不会被遗忘。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He argued, with more passion than heretofore, for the abolition of the tax.
他用了迄今为止的最大热情，竭力争辩取消此税的主张。 - 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。