Examples of using "прежнего" in a sentence and their english translations:
He became a shell of his former self.
were the ones who built it back 100 times better than before.
- They did not want to give up their old ways of living.
- They didn't want to give up their old ways of living.
She loves me; she has grown unused to her former state of life.
He was only a shadow of his former self.
Nevertheless, there were enough sparks of his old brilliance to worry his adversaries.
I looked up, and did not recognize the same man: before, I had seen death in his face; but now he was alive, and I recognized in him the presence of God.
"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."