从前的英语怎麽写

从前 before,once
从前的 former,long-ago,olden

从前:
1. previously
2. formerly
3. in former times
Relative explainations:
<beforetime> <ci-devant> <in days gone by> <in the old days> <long since> <once upon a time> <whilom> <aforetime> <when> <on a time> <upon a time> <ages ago> <once> <langsyne> <long ago> <in olden days>

Examples:
1. 从前人们在手术前用乙醚来使病人昏睡。
Ether was used formerly to put a patient to sleep before an operation.
2. 从前, 有一位非常美丽的公主。
Once upon a time, there lived a princess who was very beautiful.
3. 从前, 在一个小村庄里住着一位老人。
Once upon a time, there was an old man living in a small village.
4. 我从前没有见过他。
I hadn't seen him previously.
5. 从前医生常常给病人放血.
Doctors used to bleed people when they were ill.
6. 从前有个美丽的公主....
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess..