前者
 qián zhě
 Pinyin
Definition
前者
 - 
              - the former
 
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 or
 - 2 possibly
 - 3 maybe
 - 4 perhaps
 
- 1 to shift to an earlier date
 - 2 to do sth ahead of time
 - 3 in advance
 
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
 
之乎者也
  - 1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions
 
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)
 
Sample Sentences
中国也有陪审制度,叫人民陪审员。但是,他们的作用和美国的陪审团很不一样。在美国,陪审团的作用是巨大的。他们能决定最后的判决。同时也是维持司法公正的重要保障。在英美法系里,陪审团和法官分工明确。前者负责认定案件事实,后者负责适用法律。如果陪审团裁断无罪,法官当即宣告被告人无罪,当庭释放。如果裁断有罪,法官则会依法量刑。
  China also has the jury system. It's called the People's jury. But their role is different from American juries. In America, the jury is really important. They can make the final judgment. And they are an important protection for maintaining the impartiality of the law. In the Anglo-American legal system, juries and judges have a clear division of labor. The former is responsible for confirming the real facts of the case, while the latter is responsible for applying the law. If the jury finds ''not guilty," the judge immediately announces that the defendant is not guilty, and releases him at once. If, on the other hand, they find him ''guilty," the judge sentences him according to the law.
有人的心原是虎穴,穴口的几朵蔷薇免不了猛虎的践踏;有人的心原是花园,园中的猛虎不免给那一片香潮醉倒。所以前者气质近于阳刚,而后者气质近于阴柔。
  Some people's hearts start out as tiger lairs, with the roses at the mouth of the tiger's lair inevitably being trampled by the tiger; some people's hearts start out as gardens, and the tiger in the garden is inevitably intoxicated by the fragrance. So the nature of the former is closer to masculine, and the nature of the latter is closer to feminine.
社交对前者来说自然轻松得多,对后者来说除了要多多积累些社交经验还要克服心理障碍。
  Socializing comes with much more ease for the former, but for the latter, as well as accumulating a lot of social experience, they have to get over certain psychological obstacles.
其实这个问题比前者更难回答。因为很多人他不愿意表示自己没钱。他在一开始的时候,他可能给你的感觉是说,哎呀,这个钱不是一个问题。但是到最后的时候呢,你就发现钱的确是一个问题,而且钱是一个非常非常重要的问题。
  The truth is that this question is more difficult to answer than the the one before. This is because most people don't willingly reveal that they don't have money. As soon as he starts to, he'll start to give you a feeling that says, ”Jeez, money isn't the problem." However, in the end, you discover that money absolutely is the problem, and money is a very important concern.
前者,后者
  Former, latter.