beforehand是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 预先, 事先，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Cratchit made the 62 Sons and Loversgravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dust-ed the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Moment of Head Importance An Evening's 'Dramatic Readings' A Most Strange Journey very inhabitant of Copenhagen knows, from personal Einspection, how the entrance to Frederick's Hospital looks; but as it is possible that others, who are not Co-penhagen people, may also read this little work, we will beforehand give a short description of it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having attained success and an established position in the world, he had long ago forgotten this feeling; but the habitual bent of feeling reasserted itself, and dread of his own cowardice proved even now so strong that Alexey Alexandrovitch spent a long while thinking over the question of dueling in all its aspects, and hugging the idea of a duel, though he was fully aware beforehand that he would never under any circumstances fight one.
-- Knowing perfectly well beforehand that the matter would never come to real danger, it would amount to my simply trying to gain a certain sham reputation by such a challenge.
-- She knew beforehand that everything would go on in the old way, and far worse, indeed, than in the old way.
-- "That my wish coincides with your own," she finished quickly, exasperated at his talking so slowly while she knew beforehand all he would say.
-- But he felt helpless; he knew beforehand that every one was against him, and that he would not be allowed to do what seemed to him now so natural and right, but would be forced to do what was wrong, though it seemed the proper thing to them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Called in from the laboratory, a rather young man in a wrinkled soft collar, dizzy still with the details of Erlenmeyer flasks, infusorial earth, and sterile filters, Martin was confronted by the Men of Measured Merriment, and found that he was no longer concealed in the invisibility of insignificance but regarded as a leader who was expected not only to produce miracles but to explain beforehand how important and mature and miraculous he was.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know, for instance, beforehand with positive certainty that this man, this most reputable and exemplary citizen, will on no consideration give you money; and indeed I ask you why should he?
-- In any case, it would have been difficult to find out beforehand and with certainty, with greater exact-ness and less risk, and without dangerous inquiries and investigations, that next day at a certain time an old wom-an, on whose life an attempt was contemplated, would be at home and entirely alone.
-- All this had been stored by him beforehand under the sofa.
-- I should have looked out beforehand some stone weighing a hundred-weight or more which had been lying in the corner from the time the house was built.
-- He began calmly, gloating beforehand over the venom-ous phrases he was about to utter, but finished, panting for breath, in a frenzy, as he had been with Luzhin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And then,' said Mr. Micawber, who was present, 'I have no doubtI shall, please Heaven, begin to be beforehand with the world, andto live in a perfectly new manner, if- in short, if anything turns up.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Martin, I imagine, has his fortune entirely to make cannot be at all beforehand with the world.
-- I have no doubt of his having, at times, considerable influence; but it may be perfectly im-possible for him to know beforehand when it will be.'
-- Happily he was not farther from approving matrimony than from foreseeing it. Though always objecting to every marriage that was arranged, he never suffered beforehand from the apprehension of any; it seemed as if he could not think so ill of any two persons' understanding as to sup-234 Emmapose they meant to marry till it were proved against them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this little interruption was over, Joe resumed:--"Well, you see, Pip, and here we are!That's about where it lights; here we are!Now, when you take me in hand in my learning, Pip (and I tell you beforehand I am awful dull, most awful dull), Mrs. Joe mustn't see too much of what we're up to.
-- "Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip," said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, "because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man."
-- I saw in this, a reason for her being beforehand assigned to me.
-- The late Compeyson having been beforehand with him in intelligence of his return, and being so determined to bring him to book, I do not think he could have been saved.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know beforehand I don't care for his sort, and I let it go at that.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Niece, nevy, cousin, serwant, young 'ooman, greengrocer. Dash it!One or another on 'em,' said the turnkey, repudiating beforehand the refusal of all his suggestions.
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