前来 (前來)
qián lái
Pinyin
Definition
前来 (前來)
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- to come (formal)
- before
- previously
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 before
- 2 prior to
- 3 ago
- 4 previously
- 5 beforehand
- 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
- 1 previous generations
- 2 previous incarnation (Buddhism)
- 1 to come (formal)
- 2 before
- 3 previously
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
汝窑是中国五大名窑之一。汝窑瓷的釉色是淡淡的天青色,蓝中带绿,仔细看,有细细开片裂纹,各位同学可以上前来好好欣赏一下。
Ru Ware is one of China’s five famous kiln wares. Ru Ware’s glaze is a light cyan blue, blue with a little bit of green. Look carefully at the flaws opened up through it. Everyone can come up to the front and admire it.
随后郑伯的陪同大夫也心领神会吟诵《诗经.郑风.缁衣》中“适子之馆兮,还予授子之粲兮”,意思是,我家郑伯前来也是为卫侯之事,希望晋侯看在二位诸侯面子上,释放卫侯,二人将十分感激。
Following this, the senior official accompanying the Duke of Zheng intuitively recited the line "We will go to your court, And when we return home, we will send you a feast!" from Zi Yi from the Odes of Zheng in the Book of Songs, which meant, my Duke of Zheng has come here for the Duke of Wei, and we hope that out of respect for these two nobles, you will release him and we shall be very grateful for it.
至少要买一口好棺材。有的人家会修很豪华的墓穴,再立个墓碑。出殡那天请八九个青壮年把棺材抬到墓地去。还要请前来参加丧礼的亲戚朋友吃饭。
At the very least, you have to buy a good coffin. Some people construct really luxurious burial vaults and place a tombstone on top. On the day of the funeral procession, they'll find 8 or 9 strong, young people to help carry the coffin to the grave site. They'll also treat the relatives who came to the funeral earlier to a dinner.
的确是。现在各种MBA远程教育,备考辅导,全脱产班、全业余班、还有什么基本业余班都层出不穷,看得人头昏眼花。“挂羊头卖狗肉”的情况也确实存在。不过一些名校的MBA课程还是有口皆碑的,他们和国际知名学校合作并聘请了很多国际名师前来授课,为国际化企业职业经理人提供了学习和交流的平台。有的学校推出的只是一些相关的培训课程,并不是MBA学位,但是仍有很多人前来报名,也说明了并不是所有人都是为了学历。
That's for sure. All kinds of MBA distance education, test prep coaching, work-study programs, basic part-time classes and such are coming out one after another. You get dizzy looking at them all. Then there's also ``bait and switch." But some top schools' MBA programs really do get wide praise. They cooperate with famous international schools and hire renowned international professors to come teach. They give managers from international companies a platform for study and exchange. What some schools have introduced is just related classes, certainly not an MBA degree. But a lot of people still come to sign up, which just goes to show that not everybody is doing it for the education.