ahead of your time

/əˌhed əv jɔː ˈtaɪm/NEUTRAL · C1
EN ESPAÑOLEQUIVALENTE EXACTO
adelantado a tu época

Significado

more innovative than most people of your period

Más innovador que la mayoría de su época.

Ejemplos

  1. 1Her designs were ahead of her time; the same ideas became fashionable thirty years later.
  2. 2The architect was ahead of his time, designing energy-saving homes long before they became popular.
  3. 3She proposed online lessons decades before home computers; she was ahead of her time.
  4. 4Those engineers were ahead of their time: their rejected battery design is now the industry standard.
  5. 5His adjustable furniture seemed strange then, but its later popularity showed he was ahead of his time.

Gramática

El posesivo your concuerda con la persona o cosa descrita. time va en singular; ahead of time, sin posesivo, significa otra cosa.

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