before dawn

基本解釋

In the darkest moments before dawn, a woman returns to her bed.
在黎明前最深的黑暗中，一個女子回到了她的床邊。
The division commander ordered that we start the attack before dawn.
師長令我們在拂曉前發(fā)起攻擊。
《新英漢大辭典》
They then rise in the east just before dawn, again to be visible only a short while, and the cycle recommences.
然后，它們又會在破曉前從東方升起，僅在很短時間內(nèi)可被看到，再次開始新一輪的循環(huán)。

The violence began before dawn, with gunmen in speeding cars killing soldiers and police at checkpoints across Baghdad.
First,they don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light,at dawn, or after dark,at night.
首先，他們不在白天聚會;,要么在天亮前的黎明，要么在天黑后的夜晚。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選
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.
這就是為什么彌爾頓總是試圖把想象中的這首詩的起源,推至時間開始的時候，甚至更早,-如果你們能想象這樣一個時間--在時間開始之前。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

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