单词 | to run before |
释义 | > as lemmasto run before —— to run before —— intransitive. To keep ahead of, to anticipate (a time, a subject, one's thoughts, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall > a time prevent1467 to run before ——1513 1513 J. Skelton Ballade of Scottysshe Kynge Syr squyer galyarde ye were to swyfte. Your wyll renne before your wytte. 1540 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Flores Aliquot Sententiarum sig. A.vjv Ne lingua preuertitor animum. Lette not the tonge runne before the wytte. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 4 It is meruaile he out-dwells his howre, for louers euer runne before the clocke. View more context for this quotation 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. M4 Let your Matter runne before your Words. View more context for this quotation 1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 106 If Passion run before it [sc. judgement]..and so antivert the use of Deliberation. 1720 M. Prior Truth & Falsehood 45 Her tongue, so voluble and kind, It always runs before her mind. 1732 J. Swift Let. to Duchess Queensbury 20 Mar. in Wks. (1766) XI. 99 I mean, that my heart runs before my pen. 1821 Examiner 762/1 Imagination will run before any power of fulfilment. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xx. 228 An impulse ran before his thoughts. 1908 Kindergarten Rev. Oct. 66/2 A little child is weak and unformed, and his ideas run always before his powers. 1991 A. Mitra New India ii. 47 He gave the impression that his words ran before his thoughts, which invariably put him at a loss to finish a sentence. < as lemmas |
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