片语

shortly before noon傍午

Shortly Before Midnight临近子夜

Shortly before they begin ticket不久之前他们开始检票

shortly before ripening成熟前不久

Shortly before it disappeared先消失片刻吧

shortly before it issued results在快要公布业绩时

英汉例句

• terra’s view is shortly before noon each day, and aqua’s is shortly after.

  泰拉的视图大约是在每天中午前不久，而阿卡则是中午过后不久。

• the economy was drooping, and the agile development conference, held in utah shortly before this conference, attracted attendees who might otherwise have traveled to new orleans.

  经济萎靡不振，并且此研讨会之前不久在犹他州召开了敏捷开发研讨会，吸引了否则可能要到新奥尔良的参与者。

• hill told journalists shortly before the meeting started at the u.s. embassy in singapore he did not expect the talks to reach an agreement, but warned time is running out.

  希尔在美国驻新加坡大使馆举行的会谈前不久告诉记者说，他没有期待这次会谈能达成协议，但是警告说，时间已经不多了。

• shortly before the house vote, robert healy wrote an article in the boston globe about a meeting that had occurred between speaker tip oneill and president reagan in the white house in late 1986.

  在众议院投票前不久，罗伯特·希利在《波士顿环球报》发表了一篇文章，讲的是1986年众议院议长蒂普·奥尼尔和里根总统在白宫的一次会面。

• shortly before he passed away, my father came to see me play the part of schroeder in a community theatre production of you’re a good man, charlie brown.

  父亲去世前的那一阵子，曾来看过我在社区剧场的一场演出。我在查理·布朗的《你是个好人》中饰演施罗德的角色。

• shortly before this week’s summit with the eu, the government collapsed again; there may be another parliamentary election.

  就在本周与欧盟的峰会举行前不久，政府再次垮台，可能将面临再次举行议会选举。

• shortly before lo’s arrest, his son enrolled in a taipei military academy, continuing the family’s military tradition into a third generation.

  罗被捕后不久，他的儿子本已考进台北军事学院，继承了家族的军事传统，成为家里第三代军人。

• a student journalist interviewed someone claiming to be a representative of the hackers shortly before the obama tweets were posted.

  一名学生记者在有关奥巴马的信息发布之前采访了一名声称是黑客代理人的人。

• when integration has been discouraged, as with the descendants of slaves liberated shortly before those european immigrants arrived, differences have been sharpened.

  如果融合不被鼓励，就如同在欧洲移民到来之前不久，被解放的奴隶的后代的情形，种族差异被强化。

• 「just because something lacks scientific support doesn「t seem to me a sufficient reason to omit it from a science lesson, 」 he wrote on guardian.co.uk shortly before his resignation.

  他在辞职前不久给卫报的信中写道，「仅仅因为某些事情缺乏科学支持，这似乎不构成足够的理由将其从科学课程中删除」。

• as soon as shepard was announced as the man selected shortly before the historic flight, the american public became captivated with him, as well as the other astronauts.

  在这次历史上着名的飞行前，谢泼德不久就被宣布为选定的人，美国公众开始着迷于他及其他的航天员。

• shortly before their recent wedding they were arrested by the morality police while sitting in their car with their pet chihuahua.

  这对新婚夫妇在结婚前不久曾被道德警察逮捕，当时他们正和他们的吉娃娃宠物狗一起坐在车里。

• the us ambassador in manila wrote the government a letter urging fair consideration of all proposals for the project shortly before zte won the contract.

  在中兴通讯赢得该合同不久之前，美国驻马尼拉大使致信菲律宾政府，敦促其公平考虑针对该项目的所有建议。

• her last message to me shortly before she died was, "i am going to heaven and i want to see you there.

  临终前她留给我的最后的话语是，「我将要去天堂了，希望能在那里见到你。」

• engineers had blasted some 300 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide into the sky shortly before the storm.

  在暴风雪开始前不久，工程师们向空中发射了300枚香烟大小的碘化银棒。

• one did admit that the touchdown had seemed a little heavy. another reckoned that the first sign of problems was when the wing began to detach shortly before the aircraft came to a standstill.

  其中一名乘客承认飞机触地确实有点剧烈，另外一名乘客表示他看到不妙的端倪是在飞机停下来不久之前机翼开始分离。

• shortly before the vote, however, cuba」s revolutionary leader, fidel castro, reiterated his country's long-held line that it did not want to be in what it calls an imperialist grouping.

  很快，在表决前，然而古巴革命领导人菲德尔·卡斯特罗，重申他的国家长期坚持的路线，不希望进入所谓的帝国主义集团里。

• s. occupied japan and effectively colonized the island of okinawa, seized in a bitter battle shortly before tokyo surrendered. the u.

  而且事实上，在日本投降之前不久，美国通过一场苦战后在沖绳岛实行殖民统治，并建立了军事基地。

• it was induced when shortly before the war i received a picture of my sweetheart.

  它被引起是在战前不久，当时我收到一张女友的照片。

• so said lord kelvin in 1900, shortly before the intellectual firestorm ignited by relativity and quantum mechanics proved him comprehensively wrong.

  开尔文勛爵在由相对论和量子力学引发的智力风暴证明他全错了之前不久的1900年如是说。

• shortly before thanksgiving, the house republicans returned to washington to elect bob livingston of louisiana, the chairman of the appropriations committee, as the new speaker of the house.

  感恩节前不久，众议院的共和党人返回华盛顿，选举拨款委员会主席，路易斯安那州的鲍勃·利文斯顿作为新的众议院议长。

• the chef said he was given the picture shortly before he fled to japan in 2001.

  这位厨师说他这张相片是在他2001年逃回日本前不久得到的。

• shortly before 12:30 that day, bear stearns executives began to gather on the 12th floor for a weekly lunch to discuss market issues.

  就在12:30分之前，贝尔斯登的行政人员在12楼聚集开始每周一次的午餐会议，讨论市场上的一些问题。

• but every time an attempt at arab-israeli peacemaking fails, as barack obama’s did shortly before christmas, the peace becomes a little more fragile and the danger of war increases.

  但是，每一次阿拉伯和以色列的和平尝试失败，就像奥巴马的圣诞节前不久所做的，让和平变得越来越不现实，战争的危险日益增加一样。

• members of one were told to drink half a litre of water (a bit more than an american pint) shortly before each of three daily meals.

  第一组组员在一日三餐前不久喝了半升水（比美国单位一品脱多一点）。