• former /ˈfɔːmə/           CET4 TEM4

  • 1

    形容词 Former is used to describe someone who used to have a particular job, position, or role, but no longer has it. 前任的

    The unemployed executives include former sales managers, directors and accountants.

    失业的高管包括前销售经理、主管和会计。

    ...former president Richard Nixon.

    …前总统理查德·尼克松。

  • 2

    形容词 Former is used to refer to countries which no longer exist or whose boundaries have changed. (国家) 已不存在的; 疆界已变的

    ...the former Soviet Union.

    …前苏联。

  • 3

    形容词 Former is used to describe something which used to belong to someone or which used to be a particular thing. 昔日的

    ...the former home of Robert E. Lee.

    …罗伯特·E·李的故居。

  • 4

    代词 When two people, things, or groups have just been mentioned, you can refer to the first of them as the former. 前者

    They grappled with the problem of connecting the electricity and water supplies. The former proved simple compared with the latter.

    他们设法解决供电和供水的连接问题。前者与后者相比证明很简单。

  • 5

    名词 a person or thing that forms or shapes 形成者; 样板

former['fɔ:mə]

• n.
  • 1

    the first of two or the first mentioned of two

    Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the former is remembered today

• adj.
  • 1

    referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)

    the novel was made into a film in 1943 and again in 1967 ; I prefer the former version to the latter one

  • 2

    belonging to some prior time

    our former glory

    同义词： erstwhile(a) / old / onetime(a) / quondam(a) / sometime(a)

  • 3

    (used especially of persons) of the immediate past

    the former president

    同义词： late(a) / previous(a)

  • 4

    belonging to the distant past

    former generations

    同义词： early(a) / other(a)

• 机械工程

  • 成型器-引用次数：1

    参考来源道钉锚固剂粉料自动包装设备创新设计

  • 成缆机

  • 模子

  • 成型机

  • 模

  • 旋压模

• 物理学

  • 从前的

• 航空、航天科学技术

  • 翼助

  • 假翼肋

• 动力与电气工程

  • 线圈架，绕线模

• 计算机科学技术

  • 前

  • 线圈架

• 前者

  • 前者(Former)是抽象的，可能按照统计、视察而取得谜底；后者则是详情的，激励别人采取行动的最好办法之一，是告诉他一个真实的故事。

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• 以前的

  • ... formation 形成；构成；形成物 former 以前的，从前的 formula (formulas或formulae)公式 ...

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• 前述的

  • ... 初始的preliminary 前述的aforementioned;aforesaid;former 自古到今fromancienttimestothepresentday;downthroughtheages ...

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• 从前的

  • ... mystery神秘；神秘的事物 former以前的；从前的 worth prep.值得的；相称于…的价值n.价值；作用adj.[古]值钱的 ...

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短语
• Former French Mission Building
  前法国外方传道会大楼 | 前法国传道会大楼
• former a
  以前的 | 前者
• vacuum former
  真空成形机
• the former Soviet Union
  前苏联 | 香樟
• film former
  成膜物 | 薄膜形成器 | 薄膜成形装置
• List of former sovereign states
  已不存在国家列表
• list of former european colonies
  欧洲国家殖民地列表
• Former love
  当年情 | 前情
• X-FMR X-FORMER
  变压器

词根：form

• adj.

  • formative 形成的；造型的；格式化的

    formalized 形式化的；正式的

    formless 没有形状的；无定形的；形体不明的

• adv.

  • formally 正式地；形式上

    formerly 以前；原来

• n.

  • form 形式，形状；形态，外形；方式；表格

    formative 构词要素

    formalism 形式主义；形式体系

    formalization 形式化；礼仪化

• v.

  • formalized 使正式；使有效（formalize的过去分词）；使定形；拘泥于形式

• vi.

  • form 形成，构成；排列

    formalize 拘泥于形式

• vt.

  • form 构成，组成；排列，组织；产生，塑造

    formalize 使形式化；使正式；拘泥礼仪

• adj.

  • 从前的，前者的；前任的

    long-ago / old-time

• n.

  • 模型，样板；起形成作用的人

    matrix / model / shape / template