A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
之前
Before
Look twice before you leap.
三思而后行。
Be just before you are generous.
慷慨之前先要公正。
It's always darkest before the dawn
黎明前总是最黑暗的
I run every day now. I never ran before.
我现在每天都跑步。我以前从未跑过。
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
在我知道其他事情之前，我就知道拳击了。
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
婚前恋爱是绝对必要的。
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
生活过了一半，我们才知道它是什么。
We must be our own before we can be another's.
我们必须先做自己，才能成为别人的。
I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.
我想在死之前看到海湾被清理干净。
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down.
在你让我失望之前，我是个梦想家。
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
在你赢得一场比赛之前，你必须不输掉它。
Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.
孩子们总是在睡觉前最调皮捣蛋。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
你必须画成千上万的图，然后才能完善一个插图。
I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
我仍然持一种相当老式的观点，认为这是我的工作，而且是在公共场所进行的，但这并不意味着每个人都有权在来这里之前知道在家里发生了什么。
But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.
但是在我决定做什么之前，我的脑子里有一个想法。
First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
首先，我们有来自士兵的宣誓证词，以及在我们工作人员面前的证词，这些证词都不是宣誓的，这些证词说，这些警报很少响起，它们在战后大多数情况下会响起，而且经常响起。
It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, 'Just let me do what I do.'
在我和唱片公司签约之前，写歌要容易得多，因为唱片公司和唱片行业并不想给你施加压力，但他们确实给了你压力。他们没有意识到这一点，但你最终会感受到一种压力。有时我觉得自己想说，‘让我做我该做的吧。’
Every night before I go to sleep I think about you, us and how much I love you.
每天晚上睡觉前，我都会想起你，想起我们，想起我有多爱你。