already ... before
我们去林子里我一直在设陷阱出这件事之前就开始了在树林里面?
We went into the woods. I’d been setting traps there all along—it started before this happened.
— 女巫 (2016)
飞机十分钟之前就起飞了。
The plane took off ten minutes ago.
所以未杀之前就逃
So he fled before he could kill him.
— 七武士 (1954)
很久之前就戒了
I quit a long time ago.
— 天气之子 (2019)
有些宝宝甚至在一岁之前就学习游泳了。
Some babies even learn to swim before they turn one.