プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
ぜんご【前後】
❶〔前と後ろ〕the front and the rear
前後をよく見なさい
Look carefully to the front and the rear.
私の車の前後に大型のバスが走っていた
Large buses were running in front of and behind my car.
前後左右を見回した
I looked all around me.
❷〔時間の後先〕
その事件の前後のことを思い出せますか
Can you recall what happened before and after the incident?
兄と弟は前後して到着した
The brothers arrived within a few minutes of each other.
地震と前後して火災が発生した
A fire broke out almost simultaneously with the earthquake.
❸〔物事の脈絡・道理〕
彼は逆上して前後を忘れた
He lost himself in anger.／《口》 He was so angry that he completely lost it.
前後の見境もなく彼女に殴り掛かった
He struck at her without considering the consequences.
彼女の話は前後しているようだ
She seems to have mixed up the order of events.
❹〔…ぐらい〕
彼は９時前後にやって来た
He came about [around] nine o'clock.
40歳前後の男がたずねて来た
A man of about forty came to see me.
前後関係
the context
その文は前後関係を見ないと理解できない
I can't understand the sentence until I see the context.
前後不覚
疲れていたので前後不覚に眠った
I was so tired that 「I slept like a log [I was dead to the world].
酒を飲み過ぎて彼は前後不覚になった
He drank too much, and passed out.