earlier

基本解释

• adj. 早些时候的，初期的
• adv. 早地，早些时候地

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• He arrived earlier than usual.
  他到得比往常早。
  《新英汉大辞典》
• She matured earlier than him.
  她比他成熟得早。
• Remind her to come earlier tomorrow morning.
  提醒她明天上午早点来。

原声例句

• But that was less than they fell at the end of two thousand eight compared to a year earlier.
• What happens to those resources that the great modernist writers endowed language with so powerfully earlier in the century?
  本世纪早期,杰出的现代主义作家们如此给力,地赋予语言一些资源？
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• Yeats develops this idea or develops another version of it in a somewhat earlier poem that's interesting in relation to this one.
  叶芝进一步发展了这一想法,并在早期的一首诗里,写了另一个版本,那首与这首的关系很有趣。
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权威例句

• Competition from ICE drove Nymex into the arms of the Merc earlier this year.
  FORBES: The $25 Billion Gorilla

词组短语

短语

• earlier involvement 前期参与
• earlier completion 提前完工
• Mature earlier 早熟开放
• earlier than 早于;先于
• Earlier on 第七章;前一阵子;一向;先期

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• Earlier is the comparative of . (early)
• Earlier is used to refer to a point or period in time before the present or before the one you are talking about.
• Earlier is also an adjective.