formerly
/ˈfɔɹmɚli/ 副词 B2中文： 以前
- At some time in the past. · Xenia Robertson, formerly known as Xenia Isaamov, is from Ukraine.
- Previously; once. · This ranch was formerly owned by slaveholders.
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Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.
Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.
He looked surprised, displeased, alarmed; but, with a moment’s recollection, and a returning smile, replied, that he had formerly seen him often; and, after observing that he was a very gentlemanlike man, asked her how she had liked him.
The town where she had formerly passed some years of her life, and where they were now to spend a few days, was probably as great an object of her curiosity as all the celebrated beauties of Matlock, Chatsworth, Dovedale, or the Peak.
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