heretofore

英 [ˌhɪətuˈfɔː(r)]

美 [ˌhɪrtuˈfɔːr]

adv.  在这之前

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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'.
  1. 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。

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
  1. So far he hasn't called
  2. the sun isn't up yet
  Synonym:so farthus farup to nowhithertoas yetyettil nowuntil now

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened, and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore.
  而这条忧郁的小溪也将在它那已经过于沉重的小小心灵中再加上另一个神秘的故事，它将继续潺潺向前，悄声低语，其音调比起先前的多少世纪绝不会有半点欢快。
• 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。
• The parties heretofore acting as trustee
  在此以前作为受托人的当事人
• 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 the merchant has sold goods on credit, but from this time he will sell only for cash.
  以前那商人赊账卖东西，但从今以后他将以现金买卖。
• Your work heretofore has been done with the help of your conscious mind alone.
  至今为止你所做成功的所有事情都是你的意识思想所至。