the year before meaning in English
一年前，前一年
Examples
- They were in fashion last year and the year before last .
它们去年和前年流行。 - The years before the first world war witnessed, too, a remarkable outburst of poetic creativity .
第一次世界大战前的年月里，诗歌创作也有显著发展。 - The formalists emerged in russia in the years before the 1917 bolshevik revolution, and flourished throughout the 1920s .
这些形式主义者发轫于俄国1917年布尔什维克革命之前几年，活跃于整个二十年代。 - That was a one percent increase from the year before
比上年增加了1个百分点。 - The year before last , they went into the cornfield and ,
前年,它们跑到玉米地里去了