明天晚上十二点之前 手机不要开机
“Don't turn your phone on before midnight tomorrow.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Shun, check the flights. - Okay. - Yanzi, check the high-speed rail. Okay.”
明天晚上十二点之前 手机 不要开机
“Don't turn your phone on before midnight tomorrow.”
“Go to the outskirts and find a quiet place to relax.”
“Stay completely unreachable until the crisis blows over.”
Turning off phones and retreating to quiet suburbs is a classic tactic in Chinese drama contexts to 'avoid the sharp edge of a storm' (避风头).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
before; prior to
Placed after a time expression to set a strict temporal deadline.
to power on (a phone or device)
A standard technological term referring specifically to booting or switching on electronic devices.