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already

/awl-red-ee/US // ɔlˈrɛd i //UK // (ɔːlˈrɛdɪ) //

已经,已,已有,已然

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : by this or that time; prior to or at some specified or implied time; previously: When we came in, we found they had already arrived.
    • : now; so soon; so early: Is it noon already?
    • : Informal.: Let's go already!

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Examples

  • And yes, someone has already called Spencer a “Small Fry,” har har.

  • Merabet had already been immobilized by a bullet to the groin.

  • For his part, Bratton is disappointed but not surprised that the same narrative is already being mapped onto Fry and Spencer.

  • Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.

  • French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.

  • The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.

  • Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.

  • I want to see the sort of thing happening to schools that has already happened to many sorts of retail shops.

  • Now what should college give the young citizen, male or female, upon the foundation of schooling we have already sketched out?

  • This system, as already stated, became operative in most districts during June, 1915.