I would like to be wise before my time and yet be foolish and brash and bold.

我想要在大限到来之前变得聪明并且愚蠢傲慢勇敢。

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I had time to do a quick edit of my essay before handing it in.

我呈交论文之前有点时间，很快地校订了一遍。

《牛津词典》

I had just enough time to finish eating before the bell rang and I was off to my first class.

我在铃响前刚好有时间吃完，然后就去上第一节课了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"Before when it was my first time, I take the train on the other side,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Our class,in fact, is just before lunch time, and I'm happy to say that when they do my class, they don't need lunch any more because they eat what they make."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"His great speciality I believe - it was before my time - was kneeing the ball out of defence".

BBC: Manager Stein honoured at stadium

The whitefish fishery (cod, haddock) collapsed more than ten years ago, the herring fishery sometime before then (before my time here).

BBC: Casting a net far into the future

Rep. MATHESON: Well, there are various stories about that, and it was a little before my time, but the story that I usually tell is that, you know, we had a term for a long time in politics called the Yellow Dog Democrat, which is that people would say I'll vote for a Democrat even if it's a yellow dog.

NPR: Blue Dogs Democrats Have a Centrist Agenda