出现在某人上级面前：在某人上级面前公开出现。
比某事更重要：在优先级上，某事更重要。
由权威判断、决定或讨论：某事由权威判断、决定或讨论。
在……之前：某物在另一物之前出现。
be the predecessor of
同义词： precede
... come forward 自告鼓起勇气 come before 优先于…… come by 走过 ...
... come after： 跟随；跟在…后面；跟踪；到来 come before： 在…之前来；在上；被提出；位于...之前 come under： 编入，归入(某一项目)；归人，受到；归入；编入，归入（某一项目） ...
... come after： 跟随；跟在…后面；跟踪；到来 come before： 在…之前来；在上；被提出；位于...之前 come under： 编入，归入(某一项目)；归人，受到；归入；编入，归入（某一项目） ...
... come back 回来，忆起，恢复原有地位 come before 位于...之前；被交付处理［审判］；被提出 come between 在...中间；离间；使分开；妨碍某人做某事 ...
位于…之前；在…之上；比…重要
There's a great deal to come before that!
在那之前还有许多事情要做呢！
Surely a few less perfect stories must have come before, and yet these two were among the first on record.
当然，以前一定有一些不太完美的故事，但这两个故事是最早被记录下来的。
We come before you in solidarity.
我们团结一致地来到大家面前。
But he says that solutions to those financial problems will not come before the country's economy is back on track.
VOA : standard.2009.10.27
Now, it's Milton's annotators who tell us that the word prevent means "to come before, to anticipate," and on some level it obviously means that and that goes without question.
弥尔顿的注解告诉我们阻止一词的含义,“在某人之前到达，预期“,从某种程度上说它就是那个意思，这毫无疑问。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.
一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
But Mr.Taylor,it's true isn't it that of all the people who have come before these judges, you are the one who has the most reason to lie,".
VOA : standard.2009.11.10
The win was Canada's sixth gold medal - perhaps fewer than expected - but Canadian officials say more gold medals could come before the Games close Sunday night.
VOA : standard.2010.02.23
To think that only 109 groups of men and women have come before this class.
It is time for common sense to come before accounting purity and cut our losses.
Like the most successful talk-show hosts who have come before him, he is a professional soulmate.