before your time

a) before you were born or before you started working or living somewhere 在…出生[开始工作，到某地生活]之前；早于…的时代

They say he was a great actor but that was before my time.

他们说他是个伟大的演员，但那时我还没有入行。

b) if you do something, especially get old, before your time, you do it before the time when most people usually do it in their lives 过早〔尤指变老〕

He seemed to grow into an old man before his time.

他似乎过早地衰老了。

Examples from the Corpus

before your time• That would be before your time, of course.• There is a basic truth in his assertion, for before his time the use of marble was rare in Roman architecture.• The men in the farmyard were all Fallschirmjager, hard young men, old before their time with cropped hair.• As for this debut, it comes to us regrettably before its time.• No, he was before my time.• The last family to live there was called Wright, but that was well before my time.• In many ways, his books, written in the first three decades of the last century, were before their time.• She did not look old; rather, she had become wrinkled before her time.

→ before your time at time1(35)

词汇	before your time
释义	before your time before your time a) before you were born or before you started working or living somewhere 在…出生[开始工作，到某地生活]之前；早于…的时代 They say he was a great actor but that was before my time. 他们说他是个伟大的演员，但那时我还没有入行。 b) if you do something, especially get old, before your time, you do it before the time when most people usually do it in their lives 过早〔尤指变老〕 He seemed to grow into an old man before his time. 他似乎过早地衰老了。 Examples from the Corpus before your time• That would be before your time, of course.• There is a basic truth in his assertion, for before his time the use of marble was rare in Roman architecture.• The men in the farmyard were all Fallschirmjager, hard young men, old before their time with cropped hair.• As for this debut, it comes to us regrettably before its time.• No, he was before my time.• The last family to live there was called Wright, but that was well before my time.• In many ways, his books, written in the first three decades of the last century, were before their time.• She did not look old; rather, she had become wrinkled before her time. → before your time at time1(35)
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