允许考虑先前的法律。It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.我试图将先前的境遇从大脑中抹去。I was trying to blank out previous situations from my mind.这部电影打破了先前的票房纪录。The movie became a box-office record breaker....

“先前的”的英语可以翻译为：foregoing，foregone，[计] firs，prior ...