1.预先,事先
2.在先头,在前面
1.if you do something in advance, you do it in preparation for a particular time or event in the future
1.Would you please let me know when it will be convenient with you in the mainland factory? Then I can be there in advance, thank you a lot.
不知你何时有空会在大陆工厂，能让我知道几点会更好以便我能准时到达，谢谢。
2.You must nourish me; you give all that in advance, which I do not understand to ask for.
你必须给我以滋润，你必须事先给予那些我没有理解没有向你要求的一切。
3.Could you tell me in advance how much the dinner will cost?
你可以事先告訴我晚餐要花多少錢嗎
4.It recently rejected an application to protect the name D. melanogaster, which had been made in advance of a proposed revision of the genus.
这个委员会近期拒绝了一份申请来保护D.melanogaster这个原先的命名，这份申请是在果蝇属类修正案之前提出的。
5.This means that Southern Company has a good idea, in advance, of how much money it will earn from generating electricity.
这就是说，与其他公司相比，南方公司在如何通过发电赚钱的问题上先想出一个好主意。
6.The next time you visit us, please let me know in advance so that I can arrange a lunch for your with our directors.
下次到方前，烦请赐知，以能安排与本公司董事会共进午餐。
7.How much interoperability is enough, or too much, is impossible to know in advance.
要多少互操作性才算够（或太多），这无法预先知道。
8.Please notice me in advance if you want me to make a speech at the party . so that I can get prepared for it .
如果你想要我在聚会上演讲请预先通知我好让我有准备。
9.Not even a few seconds of your 15 minutes must be wasted starting to read. Set that book out in advance.
这15分钟当中哪怕只有几秒钟用来准备读书都是浪费，事先做好阅读的准备。
10.That further feminine step in advance which combines paint and petticoats together had not found a votary in Miss Thorne.
女性采取的把脂粉和裙子结合起来的更为前进的一步，并没有得到索思小姐的支持。