status quo ante

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of things as they were before; a preexisting state of affairs.

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词源

From the Latin stātus quō ante (“the way things were before”), possibly from stātus quō ante bellum (“the way things were before the war”).
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