前些
qián xiē
Pinyin
Definition
前些
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- a few (days, years etc) ago
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 some
- 2 a few
- 3 a little
- 4 (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- 1 before
- 2 prior to
- 3 ago
- 4 previously
- 5 beforehand
- 1 classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several
- 1 before
- 2 formerly
- 3 previous
- 4 ago
- 1 front
- 2 forward
- 3 ahead
- 4 first
- 5 top (followed by a number)
- 6 future
- 7 ago
- 8 before
- 9 BC (e.g. 前293年)
- 10 former
- 11 formerly
Idioms (20)
一往无前
- 1 to advance courageously (idiom)
- 2 to press forward
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不顾前后
- 1 regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
五百年前是一家
- 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
停滞不前
- 1 stuck and not moving forward (idiom); stagnant
- 2 in a rut
- 3 at a standstill
Sample Sentences
那是前些年,人们在网上发作品是为了找个地儿展示自己的才华,写的人免费写,看的人免费看。现在可不是这样了,发作品的大部分是和网站签约的写手。一部作品就是三章定生死,前三章写得好,点击量大,人气高的话,就会有人找他签约,签约了就会规定每周写多少字,完成多少工作量,然后根据付费的人数拿稿费。
That was a few years ago. People were publishing their works online as a way to develop their talents. The writers wrote for free and the readers read for free. Nowadays it's not like this at all. Most of the writers publishing works have signed contracts with the websites. A work of three chapters is all that matters. If those first three chapters are well written, the traffic is a lot and the response is great, then some people will look to sign a contract with him. After signing the contract, he's committed to writing so many words per week, completing so much work.Then he gets royalties according to the number of people who pay.
我们以前也是怕麻烦,结果出个门都得我开车,所以前些天就硬着头皮去办了,没想到还挺容易的。
Before, we also thought it was going to be a big pain, so every time we went out, I was the one that had to drive. So a few days ago we bit the bullet and went to do it. We didn't realize that it would actually be so easy.