该句使用过去完成时态强调动作在过去某时间点之前已经完成。
Knowing that the long-awaited new refrigerator was about to arrive, the wife and daughter were incredibly excited. Before eight o'clock the next morning, the floors had already been scrubbed to a brilliant shine.
Around ten o'clock, the doorbell finally rang. The wife quickly answered the phone and opened the door, calling out to her daughter, "Come quick! Our new refrigerator is here!" Unable to contain her excitement, the daughter skipped to the door and waited with her mother at the entrance of their eighth-floor home, and he followed them out.
想到心仪已久的新冰箱即将送达，妻子和女儿显得格外兴奋。次日清晨八点不到，家里的地板已被她们擦拭得锃亮。
上午十点左右，门铃终于响了。妻子快步接听电话并打开房门，大声招呼女儿道：“快来，我们的新冰箱到了！”女儿迫不及待地蹦蹦跳跳地跑到门口，与妻子一起守在八楼的门口等待，他也随之走了出来。