the former

the former formalthe first of two people or things that you have just mentioned前者;ANTthe latter•Of the two possibilities, the former seems more likely.在这两种可能性中，前者似乎更有可能。

• Llanvirnian
• beat downs
• cosmetical
• ichthyological
• Bay City
• spleenier
• prochoicers
• dual mode bus
• in the first （或second等） instance
• United States Army
• mass meetings
• monohulls
• sugar candy
• capital structure
• squabbler
• strain at a gnat
• aprication
• NYA
• send down
• contact guidance
• astronaut
• arc casting
• activistic
• tamarins
• Book of Odes
• de Lesseps, Vicomte Ferdinand Marie
• schoolship
• elephant ears
• keep someone in sight 或 keep sight of something
• carburetions
• thermostat theory
• air hostesses
• lime-burning
• Ariane
• ten-code
• harp guitars
• supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
• ejaculatory duct
• on call
• take/plead the fifth
• rack off
• legateship
• desperado
• saliva
• tie down
• marmalade trees
• snowshoe sickness
• thinking-proficiency index
• people power
• atresia
• be -
• deformedness
• cerebella
• facultyman
• indigenized
• chlorohydrin
• linotyping
• wood pulps
• exhausted tea
• aloe veras
• schoolroom
• gorge wind
• underprice
• European Monetary System
• ideal bureaucracy
• ration card
• bone china
• Conestoga wagons
• the powers of good / evil / darkness
• ephemerality
• neocon
• trolleybuss
• if I were in your shoes
• gastric juices
• cabalism
• tatas
• laser diodes
• product concept
• cinder blocks
• volitions
• Jutland
• Goodeniaceae
• outspending
• ecotype
• hand in glove with
• faradizations
• sociotechnological
• pass through
• wirepuller
• forest-tree
• standard parallel
• internalised
• go for the gloves
• intone
• provost guard
• pro tem
• charge against
• nonperishables
• Lattens
• cut off a corner