former
英式音标：former怎么读
美式音标：former怎么读
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近义词： earlier,prior,preceding,past,previous,first
反义词： present,latter,later
former词义
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adj. 从前的，前者的；前任的n. 模型，样板；起形成作用的人n. (Former)人名；(法)福尔梅；(德、捷)福尔默
中文词源
former 先前的
来自古英语forma的比较级，来自PIE*pre-mo, 最早的，*pre-, 在先，词源同far, *mo, 最高级后缀，词源同intimate, ultimate. 该词实际上是最高级的比较级。比较foremost.
former双语例句
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- 1. The unemployed executives include former sales managers, directors and accountants.
- 被解雇的管理人员包括前销售经理、主管和会计。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. A former associate of Mr. Pierce's was among the project's boosters.
- 皮尔斯先生的一个前合伙人是这个计划的热心支持者之一。
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- 3. The former owner had not left any forwarding address.
- 以前的房主没有留下任何转递地址。
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- 4. The airline plans to auction its international routes to former competitors.
- 这家航空公司打算把他们的国际线路拍卖给以前的竞争对手。
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- 5. One former director embezzled $34 million in company funds.
- 一名前主管挪用了3,400万美元的公司资金。
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former英文词源
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- former
- former: [12] Former is a comparative form based on Middle English forme ‘first (in time or order)’, on the analogy of the superlative foremost [16] (which was originally formost [12]; the modern spelling came about through association with fore and most). Forme itself goes back to Old English forma, which was a descendant of a prehistoric Germanic superlative from derived from *fora ‘before’ (whence also English first, for, and fore). So untangling the suffixal accretions of centuries, former means etymologically ‘more most before’.
=> first, for, fore, primary - former (adj.)
- "earlier in time," mid-12c., comparative of forme "first, earliest in time or order," from Old English forma "first," from Proto-Germanic *fruma-, *furma-, from PIE *pre-mo-, suffixed (superlative) form of root *per- (1) "forward, through; before; first" (see per). Probably patterned on formest (see foremost); it is an unusual case of a comparative formed from a superlative (the Old English -m is a superlative suffix). As "first of two," 1580s.
- former (n.)
- "one who gives form," mid-14c., agent noun from form (v.). The Latin agent noun was formator.
former实用场景例句
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- This beautiful old building has been restored to its former glory .
- 这座美丽的老建筑物已恢复了昔日的壮观。
牛津词典
- the former world champion
- 前世界冠军
牛津词典
- my former boss/colleague/wife
- 过去的老板 / 同事；前妻
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- The former option would be much more sensible.
- 前一种选择要明智得多。
牛津词典
- He had to choose between giving up his job and giving up his principles. He chose the former.
- 他得在放弃工作和放弃原则二者中择其一。他选择了前者。
牛津词典
- the countries of the former Soviet Union
- 前苏联加盟共和国
牛津词典
- in former times
- 从前
牛津词典
- The unemployed executives include former sales managers, directors and accountants.
- 被解雇的管理人员包括前销售经理、主管和会计。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...former President Richard Nixon...
- 前总统理查德·尼克松
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the former Soviet Union.
- 前苏联
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the former Yugoslavia.
- 前南斯拉夫
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the former home of Sir Christopher Wren.
- 克里斯托弗·雷恩爵士的旧居
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a former monastery.
- 昔日的修道院
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He would want you to remember him as he was in former years.
- 他可能会希望你记住他早年的样子。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Given the choice between a pure white T-shirt and a more expensive, dirty cream one, most people can be forgiven for choosing the former...
- 如果要在一件纯白的 T 恤和一件更贵的脏兮兮的米色 T 恤之间选择的话，多数人都会选前者，这是无可厚非的。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- If the family home and joint pension rights are of equal value, the wife may choose the former and the husband the latter.
- 如果家庭住房和共同养老金具有同样的价值，妻子可能会选前者，而丈夫会选后者。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Her teemed with ideas.
- 她脑子里主意多.
期刊摘选
- She is very virulent about her former employer.
- 她对她过去的老板恨之入骨.
《简明英汉词典》
- Of the two the latter is better than the former.
- 二者中后者比前者好.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He duplicated his former mistakes.
- 他又犯了和以前一样的错误.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- A former loafter, he is now an advanced worker.
- 他这个昔日浪子, 今日成了先进工作者.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- That forceful young woman edged out the former headmaster and is now headmaster herself.
- 那个强硬的年轻女人排挤走了前任校长,她现在自己当校长.
《简明英汉词典》
- The robins occupied their former nest.
- 那些知更鸟占了它们的老窝.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- He'll go to great lengths to get his child back from his former wife.
- 不管花多大力气,他都要把孩子从前妻那里要回来.
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