not long before

基本解釋

Her father had moved, not long before his death, to this last remote way-station in a lifetime of wandering.
她父親在死前不久才搬到這裡。在他漂泊的人生中這裡是遙遠(yuǎn)的、也是最後的?？空尽?/li>
He was not long before he reached the rock, and found out the place, by the tree and other marks which his brother had given him.
他沒(méi)用多長(zhǎng)時(shí)間就到了那塊巖石，就根據(jù)他兄弟告訴他的樹(shù)和其他記號(hào)找到了那個(gè)地方。
This photo was taken several months ago, just before he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and not long before my daughter was born.
這張照片拍攝於數(shù)個(gè)月前，不久他被診斷出患了2型糖尿病，沒(méi)過(guò)多長(zhǎng)時(shí)間我女兒出生了。

He continued to broadcast on VOA until not long before his death in 1996, at the age of 75.
The less than side is gonna be a less than sign, and then the word and is going to become not one & but two ampersands back to back, and we'll see why it's two and not one before long.
小於“側(cè)還是用的“小於“,而中間的“and“將去掉,換成兩個(gè)緊挨著的&符號(hào)，但至於爲(wèi)什麼是&&而不是,我們以後會(huì)提到。
哈彿公開(kāi)課 - 計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)課程節(jié)選
Norman Borlaug taught at Texas A&M University and worked on international projects until not long before his death on September twelfth.

It was not long before critics and commentators starting calling his reform by another word: privatization.
NPR: Issue Shorthand: A Case of Name It and Flame It