之前就

already ... before

→ 之前
phrase Rare #16,916
already ... before Emphasizes that something had happened before another event or time.
CH: 他在我到之前就走了。
EN: He had already left before I arrived.

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.