1. 1戰前(英語裡常預設是二次大戰前,除非另外指明)

    Pre-war means before a war, and in a lot of English it quietly means before the Second World War, unless someone names another war. A pre-war building went up before that war. Pre-war furniture, pre-war photos, pre-war streets — things from that earlier time. In Britain you also hear it for houses from the 1920s and 1930s. Though actually, if people are talking about a different war, pre-war moves with them: in a story about another country, it can mean before that war. The word itself only says before the war; place and history fill in which one. After the war is post-war.

core核心畫面

組成pre- (before; from Latin prae- through Middle English) + war.

同家族的字

  • warthe war this word sits in front of
  • post-warsame war, the time after it instead of before

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

pre-waradj/pɹiːˈwɔː/

  • 1

    Before a war.

  • 2

    Before a war.

  • 3

    Before a war.

    • The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.
  • 4

    Before a war.

  • 5

    Before a war.

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