那可能是吹干头发、画好眼线之前的我，然而这就是阿尔·石基理每日的常态。

That could be me before the blow-drying and eyeliner, and it's definitely Al Szekeley at any time of day.

youdao

在我到达之前，想办法把你的客人打发走。

Try and get rid of your visitors before I get there.

《牛津词典》

开始做这工作之前，我并未预想过它的实际情况。

Before I started the job, I had no preconceived notions of what it would be like.

《牛津词典》

So I'm partially going to retract what I had said about the Lady's place at the very heart of this work.

所以我要部分收回,我之前说的关于小姐在这个作品中的核心地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So I was reading Media, and I have to write an essay about it. So that's what I was doing.

我在读与媒介有关的内容，需要写一篇有关的论文。那是我之前在做的。

沟通很重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And one of them is right above on that page, and I read it a little earlier: "thinking nothing and sweating."

其中一部分就在那页的上端，之前我才读过：,“脑子里一片空白,汗流个不停“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选