not before 在此之前;不早于
- I'm afraid not before midday.
恐怕在中午之前不行。 - After 13 years in power, Labour has gone, and not before time.
执政13年的工党已经远去,他们早就该谢幕了。 - The UN has recently, and not before time, decided that population control should be one of its much-vaunted Millennium Development Goals.
最近联合国决定将控制人口做为其千年发展目标中至关重要的内容之一。
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