heretofore
此时此刻,此前,在此之前,此前的
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- : before this time; until now.
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This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.
As if we haven’t endured enough in the past year, we’re currently living through what will heretofore be known as The Great Bicycle Shortage of 2021, which means complete bicycles, as well as parts, have been hard to come by.
And, ok, it has been abused in heretofore unimaginable ways by the eternally crusty Mitch McConnell, but, still, it must be kept if we're to be a bipartisan nation.
In the film’s climax, Nixon — who has heretofore taken manly pride in never crying — kneels with Henry Kissinger and prays.
Increasingly, many women are choosing to remain single—heretofore something rare in these countries.
Gone, too, are the heretofore immutable protections of intellectual property rights.
Phoenix is a revelation in the role, reaching heretofore unforeseen levels of emotional vulnerability.
Despite increasing diplomatic and military cooperation, “a strategic energy alliance has remained heretofore unconsummated.”
The intersection is essentially between the Brotherhood, the military, the revolutionaries, and the heretofore silent majority.
At last he had found permanence in a life where heretofore had been naught but transience.