英语释义

• before now;

  "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"

• comparatives of `soon' or `early';

  "Come a little sooner, if you can"

  "came earlier than I expected"

• earlier in time; previously;

  "I had known her before"

  "as I said before"

  "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"

  "her parents had died four years earlier"

  "I mentioned that problem earlier"

• (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early;

  "a fashion popular in earlier times"

  "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"

  "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"

片语

earlier insurer原保险人

earlier problems早期的问题

earlier stage前期

earlier involvement前期参与

earlier failure早期失效

earlier completion提前完工

Earlier on早先；在早期

earlier than比……早

Mature earlier早熟开放

英汉例句

• and so on this day, in which we celebrate a man and a movement that did so much for this country, let us draw strength from those earlier struggles.

  因此，在这一天，在纪念为这个国家奉献如此之多的一个人和一场运动之际，让我们从这些早期斗争中汲取力量。

• for this example, select only the one that you added earlier (figure 17).

  比如这个例子，仅仅选择您早期添加的（图17）。

• but hopes earlier in the day of an imminent deal to end six weeks of crisis appeared to have been dashed.

  但是在当天早些时候，以一场即将到来的交易来结束六周的危机的希望好像已经破灭。

• i would reiterate what we said earlier this week, that the accusations against them are without foundation.

  我要重申本周早些时候说过的话，对于他们的指控都是毫无根据的。

• sights on the road have also put any pain into perspective. i went through the city of joplin, which was ripped up by a tornado earlier this year.

  路上看到的景象也让我的任何痛苦变得不值一提，我跑过了乔普林，这个城市在今年早些时候遭到飓风的重创。

• 「but years of observation of geochemistry have taught me that caution is wise,」 he says, 「whether it be for the earlier claims on water or this latest work on chlorine isotopes.

  「但是，多年来对地球化学的观察让我知道谨慎是明智的，」他说，「无论是这次对于氯同位素的研究还是早期对于水的研究都需要谨慎。」

• a problem that you might encounter is with file compatibility, because earlier versions of the product do not support keeping the model as a root.

  您可能会遇到的一个问题是关于文件的兼容性，因为早期版本的产品并不支持使模型作为一个根。

• an experiment begun earlier this year, in which hairdressers in state barbers’ shops have been allowed to work for themselves, is likely to be extended to other parts of the economy.

  一项试验已经在今年早期开始，国有理发店里的理发师已经被允许为他们自己而工作，并且这项政策可能被延伸到其他行业里。

• in some cases this meant returning to earlier habits that — pressed for time and with plenty of money — i’d fallen out of, like using the library instead of buying books.

  有些时候这意味着我们回到早些时候的习惯—压缩时间，用很多钱—我已经从里面跳脱开了，就像我不买书而是到图书馆借书一样。

• earlier versions of the law called for the death penalty in some instances.

  这个法律的早期版本要求在有些情况下可使用死刑。

• so earlier this year, congress asked its research service to come up with a definition of middle class.

  所以在今年早些时候，国会要求其下属的研究机构给中产阶级做一个界定。

• hey， come earlier tomorrow!

  哎，明天早点儿来啊！

• if in her earlier career it was all about her then i think at the end it was about something else.

  如果在她的早期生涯中，一切都是跟她本人有关的话，那么我想最终就是跟某种其它事情有关。

• my earlier research showed that they tend to get better grades in school, which get them into better colleges, which then lead to better job opportunities.

  我早期的研究表明他们在学校中通常有更好的成绩，这使得他们能进入更好的大学，接着便有了更好的工作机会。

• she matured earlier than him.

  她比他成熟得早。

• it cut its dividend earlier this year.

  它在今年早些降低了它的股息。

• 」so i have no option but reaching out to them this way," he said earlier in the week.

  「所以我没有其他办法只能通过这个途径表达意愿。」他本周早些时候说。

• he said he should have questioned earlier the executive purchase of shares in an oil company.

  他表示他此前就应该质疑这名高管购买一家石油公司股份的行为。

• remind her to come earlier tomorrow morning.

  提醒她明天上午早点来。

• as i said earlier this week in new york, all nations have a responsibility to meet this challenge, and together, we have taken a substantial step forward in meeting that responsibility.

  正如本周早些时候我在纽约所言，所有国家都有责任迎接这一挑战，通过共同努力，我们在履行此项责任方面向前迈出了一大步。

• the aim of this section is to consolidate and complement the earlier discussions.

  本部分的目的是对这些早期的讨论进行整合和补充。

相似词

back背部；脊梁骨；后部；背面；末尾；（椅子）靠背；后卫；船体；（飞机）机身；（人的）躯干；

beforead 以前，过去，已经

former模型，样板；起形成作用的人

previousad 在先；在…以前

ago以前的

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later(Later)人名；(德)拉特