イディオムテーマ: 時間

ahead of your time

/əˌhed əv jɔː ˈtaɪm/NEUTRAL · C1
日本語では近い表現
時代を先取りする

意味

more innovative than most people of your period

同時代の人より革新的である.

例文

  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.

文法

your は描写する人や物に合わせる。time は単数のまま。所有格なしの ahead of time は別の意味になる

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