喜樂美語
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    Heretofore means “before this time” or “until now.” It looks back from this moment and says: up to here, this is how things stood. You find it in law, reports, and rather stiff writing: a heretofore unknown problem, the rules we have heretofore followed. It does not mean “from now on” — that looking-forward idea is henceforth or hereafter, and mixing those two directions is the usual trap. The word is formal and a little dusty. In speech people say until now, before this, or up to now, and that is what you should say too unless you are copying a legal sentence.

    此前、迄今（書面／法律；口語說「到目前為止」）

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組成From Middle English heretoforn: here (“here”) + toforn (“before”), from Old English tōforan (“before”).

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  • herethe “this point in time” half of the word
  • hereafterthe opposite direction: after this time, not before it

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

heretoforeadv/ˌhɪətəˈfɔː/

  • 1

    formalBefore now, until now, up to the present time; from the beginning to this point.

    • We now make available these works which were heretofore unpublished.
    • He had more liberty now than he'd known heretofore.
  • 2

    Previously within the present text; earlier herein.

    • heretofore referred to as
    • heretofore mentioned

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。