A WORD, A WORLD
former
释义
- adj.
- 前；以前的；昔日的；（两者中）前者的
- n.
- 【机】模型；创造者；【无线】线圈架；〈英〉公学及其他中等学校的学生
- pron.
- （两者中的）前者
- 网络
- 从前的；在前的；前任的
展开详细释义
n.
1.成型铺装机
2.成形工具
3.绳股并捻机
4.模子
5.骨架
6.构成者,创造者
7.〔英国〕公学及其他中等学校的学生
8.支撑板
9.【机械工程】模型,样板,成形[型]设备
10.【无线电】线圈架
adj.
1.以前的,从前的
2.在前的;〔美国〕前任的
3.早先,从前的,往日的
词形变化
复数：formers
常用短语 5 组
- former president
- 前任总统
- former residence
- 故居
- former name
- 曾用名
- in former times
- 从前
- film former
- 成膜剂，成膜物；薄膜生成元素；薄膜形成器
在例句中理解 33 句
The shortish and baldish former gold salesman is about as far from the popular image of a Wall Street titan as you can get.
这位前“黄金推销员”个头不高，有些谢顶，远非你所想象的那种受欢迎的华尔街巨头。
It would be impossible to insist too much on the arbitrary nature of the former opposition between art and philosophy.
在艺术和哲学古已有之的对立中，过分坚持它具有随意性是不可能的。
During a visit to Kosovo this summer, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie met with a remarkable group of children.
今年夏天，在访问科索沃期间，前任英国首相托尼·布莱尔和他的妻子切丽会见了一群非常有才能的孩子。
The former Chievo striker is willing to take a pay-cut if it would mean going back to the Olimpico Stadium with Lazio.
这位前切沃前锋表示如果能回到奥林匹克球场，他愿意接受降薪。
The former Apple employee, who worked in an Apple store, also notes that this happens every time Apple releases a hot new product.
这位苹果前雇员还告诉我，每一次有新的热门产品发售，这种情况都会发生。
Former shareholders remain tight-lipped about how much they lost and the ultimate settlements were never made public.
前股东们至今仍咬紧口风，拒不透露各自亏损金额。最后达成的和解协议也一直没有公开。
Then he confronted a former customer, whom he could see smoking just a few hundred yards away. The man explained the math to him.
当他看到一位以前的顾客在远处吸烟，便上前当面询问，从而知晓了其中原委。
however, it is as if insufficient to understand its fuzziness in the former research, and it is also one of reasons to present the paper.
然而，以往的研究对其模糊性的认识似乎不够，这也是做本论文的缘由之一。
Say the word 'sell' enough times, and you win a long, awkward elevator ride out of the building with your soon-to-be-former boss.
如果说“卖出”这个词次数太多了，你的老板很可能就要请你走人了。
The former Roma man has not been given much playing time so far and has made no secret of the fact that he would favour a transfer.
这位成名于罗马的铁卫本赛季到目前为止并未获得多少出场的机会，毫无疑问，他将会很乐意被交易出去。
The Brazilian star came back to haunt his former side just as he had done in a Real Madrid shirt when he scored at Barcelona.
巴西球星回归这一球场攻入了老东家的球门，就如当初身披皇马球衣的他攻入巴塞罗那的球门一样。
This was to be hei last evening alone as Jeff, her former mater, would be returning Zac to her early in the moring.
这是她在家独处的最后一个晚上，因为她的前夫杰夫会在早上把扎克送回来。
Readers, would you steer your kids away from an elite school in favor of a state school, even if you could afford the former?
读者朋友，你愿意让孩子放弃名校目标而上州立大学吗，即使前者昂贵的学费对你来说不是问题？
He is reportedly angling for a seat on the GM board for one of his own lieutenants, Jerry York, a former Chrysler executive.
据说，他现在正在为他的助手――前克莱斯勒总裁杰瑞•约克，在通用委员会寻求一席之地。
He did not provide details of the deal, citing a confidentiality agreement with lawyers for the former detainees.
他以政府与这些前在押人员的律师达成了一个保密协议为由而没有提供有关这个交易的细节。
"It was a great company. It was an exciting company, " said Cindy Olson, Enron's former Executive Vice President of Human Resources.
安然人力资源部门前执行副总裁辛迪.奥尔森（CindyOlson）说，“这是一个伟大的公司，是一个令人激奋的公司。”
The former first lady managed to march on despite chaos in her campaign and growing calls for her to withdraw from the race.
这位前第一夫人在竞选团队乱作一团，外界舆论纷纷要求其退出的时候仍一往直前。
the fact that former smokers were able to quit could suggest they were intrinsically less vulnerable to the effects of nicotine.
曾经吸烟的人最终戒掉烟瘾的事实说明，他们从本质上来说更不易受到尼古丁的影响。
The goal was not to develop trade and expertise where none had existed, but to help restore Europe to its former wealth.
这项计划的目标并非是在毫无基础的条件下建立新贸易和能力，而是帮助欧洲恢复原有的繁荣。
If so, Thailand may emerge from two years of political strife and regain its former status as a beacon of multi-party democracy in Asia.
假如这样的话，泰国将摆脱两年来的政治冲突，重新成为亚洲多党派民主政治的灯塔。
That tends to cancel out the appeal this upstanding family man and former bishop would otherwise have to the party's social conservatives.
这将会削弱这名出身不俗的前主教对他所在党派的社会保守主义者的吸引力。
In former times the Sun used to lie in this constellation when it reaches the its point farthest north -- the time of the summer solstice.
在过去，当太阳绕行到它的最北点时会停留在这个星座，也就是每年的夏至。
Steve Meltz stopped by to take a picture, hoping that later Tuesday night it might be known as the former house of the new president.
史蒂夫·梅尔茨在顺便拜访这里的时候拍照，希望周二晚些时候它可能成为新总统的故居。
Once a Zabrak from Iridonia, Maul abandoned all trace of his former identity when he took on his Sith name.
曾经是一位艾里多尼亚的萨巴克人，魔在他接受西斯之名时，抛弃了所有和他过去身分的痕迹。
Opposition politicians, newspaper columnists and a disaffected former foreign minister are beginning to find their voice.
反对派政客、报纸专栏作者和不满的前外交部长开始讲话。
Yet even this does not seem to have returned their former power; global markets have simply grown too big.
但即便如此，对冲基金也没有恢复以往的影响力，因为全球市场的规模已变得过于庞大。
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O Connor is in her 70s, and former surgeon general C. Everett Koop chairs an Internet start up in his 80s.
最高法院法官桑德拉·欧科纳70多岁，前外科医生协会总裁C·埃弗雷特·库普80来岁还主持了一个网站的起步工作。
There was the former architect who now sold eggs from her kitchen table.
有位女士先前是建筑师，现在靠烹制鸡蛋出售为生。
Some of Crystal's former clients have called him a Judas for criticizing the system he used to be a part of.
克里斯托曾经也是他所指责体系里的一员，因此他被一些客户指责为是叛徒。
Former days costly be like a dream, warm warm yellow, glaring aureate , cold purple, swaying those are dim the boat of medium memory.
往日的奢华如梦，暖暖的黄色、闪耀的金色、冷冷的紫色，摇曳着那些冥冥中的记忆之舟。
the former Soviet Union
前苏联
Their farm has been reduced to half its former size.
他们的农场已缩小到以前的一半。
Of the two possibilities, the former seems more likely.
在这两种可能性中，前者似乎更有可能。