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。

It's interesting that he sent me the book twenty days before the deadline for my book.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

考试前他很紧张。

He was nervous before exams.

youdao

解放前他靠吃野薯度日。

Before liberation he subsisted on wild potatoes.

《新英汉大辞典》

Interestingly, towards his death, I had the chance to meet him, And I asked him... He knew he was dying.

在他去世前，我曾经去拜访他，我问他。。。，他知道他就要离开人世。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Yeah, he's a good player. But a few years ago, one of the reasons that United bought that player,

他是个很好的球员。但是几年前，联队买他的原因之一，

知道朴智星吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选