1. Other urgent circumstances that require prior execution. 因情况紧急需要先予执行的。
2. You can only withdraw the money from this account by prior arrangement with the bank. 你唯一能够从这个账户取出钱就是事先和这个银行取得安排。
3. The textbook delivery time is just two semester prior to three months, almost all of the rest of the time machine. 而印教科书的时间一般只是在两个学期开学前的三个月时间，其余时间机器几乎都停着。
英英解释
n.
1. the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
2. earlier in time
