It's interesting that he sent me the book twenty days before the deadline for my book.
有趣的是，在距离我书的截止日期20天前他把那本书寄给了我。
He came from the twenty-third floor down to the lobby on the mezzanine to collect his mail before breakfast, and he believed—he hoped—that he looked passably well: doing all right.
早饭前，他从二十三楼走到夹层的门厅去取邮件。他相信——他希望——他看上去还过得去：一切都很好。
Before I leave this world, I have to tell you one thing that has been hidden in my heart for over twenty years.
在我离开这个世界之前，我必须告诉你一件在我心里藏了二十多年的事。
Twenty years of living away from her had not changed that in him: he always knew what was on her mind before she said it, and he wondered if she was ever aware of that.
虽然离开母亲已经有二十年，他的这一点并没有改变，他总是在母亲把话说出来之前就知道她心里想的是什么，他不知道母亲是否意识到这一点。
Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three and twenty!
天哪！我要是不能在二十三岁以前结婚，那多么丢脸啊！
Twenty-five years ago, his father, after a long day of musing in his armchair, had said the same thing, his final verdict before he swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills.
二十五年前，他父亲在扶手椅里沉思一整天后，也说了同样的话，这是他吞下一瓶安眠药之前作出的最后结论。
The angular hollows and lines of his aged ancestors had succeeded to their reign in his face twenty years before their time.
他的那些老祖宗们的瘦骨嶙峋和满脸的皱纹，已经提前二十年出现在他的脸上了。
There were twenty mutual friends listed, but I never heard the name before and they didn't include a note identifying themselves.
有二十多个朋友交互列表但是我以前从来没听说过这个名字并且他们也没有任何注释标明他们的身份。
Before he had finished, another of the sorcerers, a man of about twenty-five, came in, and having put on a black gown also, seated himself at my left band.
召唤还未结束时，另外一位二十五岁上下的术士走了进来，穿上一件黑袍，坐在我的左手边。
"Twenty-eight per cent of women as opposed to only 5 per cent of men do any housekeeping before going to work," she was quoted by the DailyMail, as saying.
《每日邮报》援引她的话说：“28%的女性早晨上班前得料理家务，而男性中只有5%的人需要做这些事。”
So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.
他量内殿，长二十肘，宽二十肘。他对我说，这是至圣所。
"Twenty years ago, after the drought, our situation here was quite desperate, but now we live much better," he said. "Before, most families had only one granary each."
“二十年前的旱灾后，我们的处于极其绝望的境地，但现在我们的生活改善很多，”阿里说，“之前，大多数家庭每家只有一座粮仓。”
Be sure to look over chapter twenty-two before the exam!
考试前一定要把第二十二章看一遍！
I wrote three books before I was twenty-one.
我二十岁之前就写了三本书。
Before she was twenty-five she had accomplished this condition.
不到二十五岁，她就完成了这个任务。
But overnight they recharged or reinflated themselves and droned and hissed away the next morning just as they had twenty-four hours before.
但经过一夜休息和充电，唠叨和唏嘘之后，第二天早晨又像前一天一样生龙活虎起来。
Then, twenty minutes before we were supposed to go out, she comes by my apartment.
然而，在离约定时间还有20分钟的时候，她来到了我的公寓。
I often read twenty minutes before I fall asleep.
我经常读二十分钟前我就睡着了。
Give yourself twenty four hours before making the purchase.
在做出购买决定之前给你自己24小时。
“Billie Jean, ” he says in “Moon Walk, ” still had no dance component the night before he was scheduled to perform it in honor of Motown’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
《月球漫步》中写到，《比莉简》要在摩城唱片公司25周年庆典上演出，而临庆典前一晚还没有这首歌的舞蹈编排。
He was balding before he reached twenty.
他二十岁之前就变成秃头了。
Then, just before her twenty-first birthday, Tatum met the man who would become her husband: the explosive tennis great John Mc Enroe.
就在她21岁生日前夕，黛登遇到了那个后来成为她丈夫的人——暴躁的网球明星约翰-麦肯罗。
My cousin talked him into selling the house that he and my aunt had built together about twenty five years before.
我堂姐游说伯父卖掉那栋他和伯母大概在25年前一起建造的房子。
A week before, he had completed a successful overland flight during which he covered twenty-six miles.
一周以前，他曾成功地进行了一次26英里的陆上飞行。
In 1831, before he went on the voyage1 of the Beagle2, he was a very ordinary young man of twenty-two.
1831年踏上贝格尔号的航程之前，他还是个普普通通的22岁青年。
We looked at each other for about twenty seconds before the car disappeared around the corner.
我们彼此打量了约莫20秒钟，然后汽车转过街角消失了。
We looked at each other for about twenty seconds before the car disappeared around the corner.
我们彼此打量了约莫20秒钟，然后汽车转过街角消失了。
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