prior
/ˈpɹaɪ.(ə)ɹ/ 形容词 B2中文： 事前、预先、先验
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous. · His prior residence was smaller than his current one.· I had no prior knowledge you were coming.
- More important or significant.
- Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
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Elizabeth, feeling it incumbent on her to relieve him from so unpleasant a situation, now put herself forward to confirm his account, by mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself; and endeavoured to put a stop to the exclamations of her mother and sisters, by the earnestness of her congratulations to Sir William, in which she was readily joined by Jane, and by making a variety of remarks on the happiness that might be expected from the match, the excellent character of Mr.
Wickham, undoubtedly by design; for there proved to have been a prior acquaintance between him and Mrs.
Prior to Bazalgette's brilliant intervention, recurrent outbreaks of cholera had repeatedly devastated the city, thriving in the deplorable sanitary conditions of early industrialization.
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