喜樂美語
  1. 1戰前（英語裡常預設是二次大戰前，除非另外指明）

    Pre-war means before a war, and in a lot of English it quietly means before the Second World War, unless someone names another war. A pre-war building went up before that war. Pre-war furniture, pre-war photos, pre-war streets — things from that earlier time. In Britain you also hear it for houses from the 1920s and 1930s. Though actually, if people are talking about a different war, pre-war moves with them: in a story about another country, it can mean before that war. The word itself only says before the war; place and history fill in which one. After the war is post-war.

    pre-war 指戰爭之前，英文裡常預設是二次大戰之前，除非有人另外指明戰爭。例如「a pre-war building」指戰前蓋的建築，也可以說戰前的家具、照片或街道。在英國也常用來指 1920、1930 年代蓋的房子。如果講的是別的戰爭，它就跟著那場戰爭走，指那場戰爭之前。它的相對詞是 post-war，指戰後。

From the word’s history

pre- + war.

由 pre- 和 war 組成。

Wiktionary

組成pre- (before; from Latin prae- through Middle English) + war.

同家族的字

  • warthe war this word sits in front of
  • post-warsame war, the time after it instead of before

原始詞典資料5 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。

pre-waradj/pɹiːˈwɔː/

  • 1

    Before a war.

  • 2

    Before a war.

  • 3

    Before a war.

    • The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.
  • 4

    Before a war.

  • 5

    Before a war.

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。