Li Ming and I took part in a wilderness survival program yesterday. Just before the dawn, we set out on foot in high spirits.

昨天我和李明参加了一个野外生存训练。就在黎明前，我们兴高采烈地步行出发了。

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But there are signs this may be the darkest hour just before the dawn.

但有预兆表示这也许只是黎明前最黑暗的时刻。

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Then sorrow and crying shall flee away forever, as darkness before the dawn. --Selected.

忧愁要在你面前逃跑，好像黑暗在早晨前逃跑一般。

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The violence began before dawn, with gunmen in speeding cars killing soldiers and police at checkpoints across Baghdad.

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First,they don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light,at dawn, or after dark,at night.

首先，他们不在白天聚会;,要么在天亮前的黎明，要么在天黑后的夜晚。

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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.

这就是为什么弥尔顿总是试图把想象中的这首诗的起源,推至时间开始的时候，甚至更早,-如果你们能想象这样一个时间--在时间开始之前。

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