- 1（古／詩）在…之前
Ere means before. It is an old word. You will meet it in poems, in the Bible, in stories that want an old-fashioned sound: ere dawn, ere long, ere he spoke. It can sit before a time-word (ere morning) or before a whole clause (ere the sun rose). Nobody uses it in ordinary talk now; before and until do that work. If you put it in a school essay about your weekend, it will sound like costume. Though actually, that is the point in literature — the writer is choosing the old coat on purpose. It is not the same word as era (a stretch of history), and not a spelling of error.
From the word’s history
From Old English aer 'before', originally a comparative of 'early'.
來自古英文 ǣr「之前」，原是「早」的比較級，意思是「在…之前」。
組成From Old English ǣr, “before / earlier,” a comparative of an old word for “early.” The same root sits behind English early. Erstwhile keeps the old superlative ǣrest, “earliest.”
原始詞典資料7 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。
Erename
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A language spoken on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
ereadv詞源 1/ɛə/
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obsoleteAt an earlier time.
- Thys is he of whome I ſpake / he that cõmeth after me / was befoꝛe me be cauſe he was yer thẽ I.
ereprep詞源 1/ɛə/
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archaicBefore; sooner than.
- My ſelfe was ſtirring ere the breake of day, […]
- The hill-tops rejoicing will ere long be at their ruddiest, and blush Good-night.
ereconj詞源 1/ɛə/
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archaicbefore.
- Syꝛ, come downe ere my child die.
erecontraction詞源 3/eːɹə/
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informalA contraction of is, there, and the indefinite article. Mainly used in questions.
- 'Ere bit o' bacon in it, Kathleen?
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- extended regular expression
- ear
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。