earlier

英[\'ɜ:lɪə]
美[ˈɝlɪr]

基本释义

adj.
早期的,初期的
adv.
早期(地),初期(地)

实用例句

A few days earlier he had received a telegram from Lord Lloyd.

几天前,他收到劳埃德勋爵发来的一封电报。

柯林斯例句

The earlier the treatment is given, the better the patient's chances.

病人越早接受治疗,康复的可能性就越大。

柯林斯例句

Girls generally reach sexual maturity two years earlier than boys.

通常女孩性发育成熟要比男孩早两年。

柯林斯例句

It would be nice to be able to afford to retire earlier.

无后顾之忧而能提早退休当是件幸事。

柯林斯例句

If I may return to what we were talking about earlier.

让我们再回到之前的那个话题。

柯林斯例句

He was asked about earlier boasts of a quick victory.

有人质问他早先说过的那些速战速决的大话.

柯林斯例句

She had earlier resigned her post as President Menem's assistant.

她早些时候辞去了梅内姆总统助理一职。

柯林斯例句

He was exulting in a win at the show earlier that day.

他正在为当天早些时候在节目中胜出而欢欣鼓舞。

柯林斯例句

If you've read my earlier memoirs you'll know all about it.

如果你读过我早期的回忆录,就全都明白了。

柯林斯例句

A wage freeze was imposed on all staff earlier this month.

这个月早些时候,所有员工的工资都被冻结了。

柯林斯例句

Many phrases in the last two chapters echo earlier passages.

最后两章中的很多说法是对前面段落的呼应。

柯林斯例句

He said earlier that he is not holding out a begging bowl.

他早先说他不会伸手去乞求援助。

柯林斯例句

Yesterday'svote itself was a retreat from an earlier fallback position.

昨天的投票本身就是放弃先前所留退路的做法。

柯林斯例句

Earlier reports were unable to confirm that there were any survivors.

早先的报道无法证实是否有幸存者。

柯林斯例句

Police said Stefanovski had robbed a man just hours earlier.

警察说斯泰凡诺夫斯基就在几个小时前抢劫了一名男子。

柯林斯例句

真题例句

These findings echo earlier research that suggests our perception of food can sometimes trick our body's response to the food itself.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

I'm afraid I can't come any earlier because I have three classes this afternoon.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

And the Swedes makes most of it often they started work earlier in summer and then leave at about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so that they can really enjoy the long summer evenings.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Jane should have started a little earlier.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime.

2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Consider trying to remember where you parked your car in the same car park you were at a week earlier.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Earlier this morning, the office asked for the public's help to measure their speed results, saying consumers deserved to get the speeds they were promised.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord with UNESCO to establish a task force of police art detectives and archaeologists (考古学家) to protect cultural heritage from natural disasters and terror groups, such as IsiS.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Just hours earlier, Uganda's police chief had warned of possible Christmas- time attacks by Somali rebels.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

The maker of Mountain Dew and Gatorade has been one of the earlier movers in the industry to offer products with reduced levels of unhealthy ingredients—PepsiCo claims a packet of its chips now contains less salt than a slice of white bread.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

One recent change in college admissions is that selective colleges and universities have moved the traditional deadline to earlier dates.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on," says Michael Hout, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Americans today have more free time than earlier generations

出自-2014年6月听力原文

I ran earlier and asked for some information about Dennis Hutton, the scientist.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep mysteries of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Baby girls usually talk at an earlier age than boys do.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Girls seem to start reasoning earlier than boys

出自-2012年12月听力原文

And the Swedes makes most of it often they started work earlier in summer and then leave at about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so that they can really enjoy the long summer evenings.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

As I said earlier, it’s mostly vegetables.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly confirm earlier studies.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Each featuring a different researcher, one of whom they'd met once two years earlier.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Earlier this month a separate study found that a combination of climate change and industrial fishing is threatening the krill (磷虾) population in Antarctic waters, with a potentially disastrous impact on whales, seals and penguins.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Hacker's argument has met with opposition from other math educators who say what's needed is to help students develop a better relationship with math earlier, rather than teaching them less math altogether.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

In an earlier time, American fashion had also followed the dictates of Paris, or even copied and pirated specific French designs.

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Still, if late sleepers want to lose a few pounds, they can go to bed earlier than they usually do, thereby reducing their chances of taking snacks before bedtime.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

Studies have found obesity is associated with impairments in cognitive functioning, as assessed by a range of learning and memory tests, such as the ability to remember a list of words presented some minutes or hours earlier.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

The hills are remnants of an earlier geological era, scraped bare of most soil and exposed to the elements.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

There may be a third factor that impacts both of them, or the relationship could be reversed, that is people who eat less fall asleep earlier.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

They cited a study presented earlier this year of 249 pairs of parents and their children in which twice as many children as parents wanted rules on what parents could share.

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Twenge's team's analysis of the answers confirmed the earlier, well-established well-being climb, with scores rising across the 1990s, and into the later 2000s.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human "be watchful and monitoring the road" at every moment.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

His latest book the social animal, however, is more ambitious and serious than his earlier books.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

I didn't hear the bell, or I would have left earlier.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

Just as I approached my car, I saw the woman I'd let have my car spot earlier.

2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

Re-routed me through Newark and got me back to the UK even earlier than originally scheduled.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Sixteen years earlier, Pahlsson had removed the diamond ring to cook a meal.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 语法填空 原文

At its peak in 2007, it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Earlier this year the country's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced plans to pay Boeing to investigate formation flighty though the programme has yet to begin.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If the bar exam is truly a stern enough test for a would-be lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so.

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Parks feature, particularly in the earlier works, such as John hilliard's very funny Across the Park, in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different p

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want 一 the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that 一 the better.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This could lead to the rats better remembering having freed it earlier, and wanting the robot to return the favour when they get trapped, says Quinn.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitt

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those "just getting started in life" face a tougher climb than earlier generations in reaching such

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. (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"

Adverb
  • 1. 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"

  • 2. comparatives of `soon' or `early';

    "Come a little sooner, if you can"

    "came earlier than I expected"

  • 3. before now;

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

同义词

反义词

adj.较早的

later

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