I woke up just before dawn.

我正好在拂晓前醒来。

《牛津词典》

I aim to be at the lake before dawn, so let's get moving.

我打算天亮之前到湖边，所以我们马上就动身吧。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

It was terrible at first, especially getting up before dawn to catch that 6:30 train.

一开始很糟糕，尤其是黎明前起床赶6点半的火车。

youdao

The violence began before dawn, with gunmen in speeding cars killing soldiers and police at checkpoints across Baghdad.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

First,they don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light,at dawn, or after dark,at night.

首先，他们不在白天聚会;,要么在天亮前的黎明，要么在天黑后的夜晚。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

This is why he's continually placing the imaginative origin of the poem back to the very dawn of time, perhaps even back before if you can imagine such a time -- before the very dawn of time.

这就是为什么弥尔顿总是试图把想象中的这首诗的起源,推至时间开始的时候，甚至更早,-如果你们能想象这样一个时间--在时间开始之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The coast guard finally reached the Bozzano family on their rooftop an hour before dawn.

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The building burned from the inside, and firefighters had extinguished the flames before dawn.

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He would begin well before dawn, in a quiet office above Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

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