音标:[ә'fɒ:taim] ;
adv. 从前, 以前
adv. In time past; formerly.

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学英语单词
a-spinning
adusta
air heater, air-heating system
amphiapomictic(turreson 1926)
antichlore
asymmetric halfdisc
Auction markets
Barbell strategy
bearing capacity of subsoil
braced arch
brake phenomenon
bright crystalline fracture
build up rate
carucages
ceiling function
chrysophyllums
cocking wrist action
completeness of real numbers
contour maps
cooler snatcher
countably-infinite subset
counter, cycle
creeping wintergreens
croompled
current harmonics
Dibunafon
difference of phase angle
dimethylarginines
discursive hegemony
diyah
dzhebel (jebel)
Emergency Schedules
fair-built
fast neutron reactor
flats and pitches
good articulation
grid method for strain measurement
heat-death
high in
hollow-bowl clarifier
hydroxyl herderite
IANAL
idempotent ring
layer cone
left-hand member
light induced bleaching
limit of consistence
loran
macu
mikadoes
Missoula County
modern igneous petrology
Nicola Amati
non-partisanship
nonlinear stabilization
normal refraction
Oak Park
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
pavement concrete
plain-straight-face flange
precipitation echo
precision assembly
pressure vent
pseudometrizable topological space
pso-ric
psychological disorder
pyrometer cone equivalent
reflected global (solar) radiation
regards
region calcanea
retirement of property
rideth
role change
rotating roll feeder
Rotoiti, L.
safety cover
sailing region
sapidnesses
sashoon
searching enquiry
self-respectful
semi-subsistence
set algebra
Sharp's the word.
soft coating material
spun iron pipe
stable glass fiber
stationary mixing normal process
storageorgan
subjectly
submergence
subspecialty
surface dynamometer card
tightlacer
Tunisian bee
twist up
uncoddled
unmortal
without bite or sup
xylotypographic
yardsman