It is recounted of Thomas Carlyle that when he heard of the illness of his friend, Henry Taylor, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.

据说，ThomasCarlyle，有过这样的事情:当他听到朋友HenryTaylor患病时，马上跑去探望他，衣袋里带着一瓶他的夫人的药，这瓶药是她日前患小恙时配来吃剩的。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第四册

Antibiotics help to cure many diseases that were formerly fatal

抗菌素能帮助治愈许多过去曾是绝症的疾病。

属类：学习英语-同义词辨析-

Formerly a worker himself, he was now an engineer.

他过去是工人，现在当了工程师了。

属类：学习英语-语法例句-

He is incapable of that imaginative realism which admits that this is a new world to which he must adjust himself and his institutions, that every privilege he formerly took as of right he can now attain only by offering proof that it is directly relevant to social welfare.

他无法接受充满想象力的现实，而现实确定了这是一个新的世界，他本人和他恪守的习俗、准则或关系必须与之适应，同时现实又确定以前取得的作为权利的每一项特权，只能通过提供证据说明此项权利与社会福利直接有关才能得到。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-

He is incapable of that imaginative realism which admits that this is a new world to which he must adjust himself and his institutions, that every privilege he formerly took as of right he can now attain only by offering proof that it is directly relevant to social welfare.

他无法接受充满想象力的现实，而现实确定了这是一个新的世界，他本人和他恪守的习俗、准则或关系必须与之适应，同时现实又确定以前取得的作为权利的每一项特权，只能通过提供证据说明此项权利与社会福利直接有关才能得到。

属类：学习英语-新概念英语-第四册