earlier / ˈɜr li /

早期早些时候早前早期的

earlier3 个定义

adv. 副词 adverb

ear·li·er, ear·li·est.

  1. in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
  2. in the early part of the morning: to get up early.
  3. before the usual or appointed time; ahead of time: They came early and found their hosts still dressing.
  4. far back in time: The Greeks early learned to sail and navigate.
adj. 形容词 adjective

ear·li·er, ear·li·est.

  1. occurring in the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: an early hour of the day.
  2. occurring before the usual or appointed time: an early dinner.
  3. belonging to a period far back in time: early French architecture.
n. 名词 noun

plural ear·lies.

  1. a fruit or vegetable that appears before most others of its type.

earlier 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

former

earlier 的近义词 3
earlier 的反义词 1

earlier构成的短语

  • early bird catches the worm
  • early on
  • early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)
  • bright and early

更多earlier例句

  1. Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.
  2. In 2007, Huckabee said he stood by these earlier remarks, but would phrase them differently.
  3. He was also a charismatic, telegenic speaker with a face improved by plastic surgery several years earlier.
  4. An F-35 was destroyed on takeoff earlier in the year when a design flaw in its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine sparked a fire.
  5. The pilot had earlier called air-traffic control reporting heavy clouds and asked to move up to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet.
  6. The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.
  7. But a little earlier still, to be an Infidel was to be an outlaw, subject to the penalty of death.
  8. The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
  9. His lordship during the earlier part of his reign never came near Walls End Castle.
  10. The explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.