Before the flood
洪荒之前,在史前时期
🧩 词语组成解析
before
[bɪ'fɔr]
prep. 在…之前;先于，优于;当着…的面;与其…;
conj. 在…之前;在…以前;比…早些;与其…;
adv. 先前，从前;在前，在前方;
be构成一些介词+fore前面→在前面
the
[ðə]
art. 指已提到的人（物）;指说话人与听者已知的人（物）;用于独一无二的事物前;与形容词最高级和序数词连用;
🗣️ 情景例句
who's responsible for this meeting,
他是这个会议的负责人
Open your books and turn to page 20.
打开书，翻到第20页。
Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.
历史学家迄今认为日历是随农业的问世而出现的，因为当时人们面临着了解四季的实际需要，