英语释义

• more readily or willingly;

  "clean it well, preferably with warm water"

  "I'd rather be in Philadelphia"

  "I'd sooner die than give up"

• comparatives of `soon' or `early';

  "Come a little sooner, if you can"

  "came earlier than I expected"

片语

sooner than早于…

no sooner一但……立即

the sooner the better愈早愈好

Even Sooner甚至更短

SOONER ORLATER梦醒时分

Usually Sooner通常更快

Compile Sooner立即编译

sooner later迟早

would sooner宁愿；宁可

had sooner宁愿

Sooner Legends神速传奇酒店

the sooner越早

英汉例句

• a mass extinction of certain fish and coral species could happen sooner than scientists previously thought.

  某些鱼类和珊瑚的大量灭绝可能比科学家此前预测的发生的更早。

• some questions to discuss sooner rather than later: if we have kids, will one of us stay home?

  早讨论比晚讨论要好：如果我们要孩子，我们中的一个能待在家里吗？

• but the other 48 states wonder why these two get such a disproportionate say in the nominating process, and why they should not vote sooner themselves.

  但是，其它48州的选民就要问了：为何这两个州就能在提名阶段获得如此优待？为何自己就不能比它们更早开始投票呢？

• mark my words. —i shall revenge sooner or later.

  留心听着：我早晚要报仇的。

• she swears that she will be avenged on her enemy sooner or later.

  她发誓迟早要向她的敌人报仇。

• he will have to reckon for his bad behaviour sooner or later.

  他迟早要对他的坏品行付出代价。

• i will tell you, sooner or later, all the complicated process.

  我迟早要把这一复杂的过程全部告诉你。

• every programmer will encounter the expression problem sooner or later, so every programming language has some sort of answer to it.

  每一个编程人员或早或晚都将会遇到表达式问题，因此每一种编程语言都会有一些答案。

• the teacher will catch up with tom sooner or later.

  汤姆早晚要受到老师的惩罚。

• one possible reason for improved survival is that seniors living in closer neighborhoods have others looking out for them who can get help sooner if they start experiencing stroke symptoms.

  存活率提高的一个可能原因是生活在关系更密切的社区的老年人有别人照应，如果他们开始出现中风癥状他们能更快地得到帮助。

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