earlier 的 3 个定义
ear·li·er, ear·li·est.
- in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- in the early part of the morning: to get up early.
- before the usual or appointed time; ahead of time: They came early and found their hosts still dressing.
- far back in time: The Greeks early learned to sail and navigate.
ear·li·er, ear·li·est.
- 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.
- occurring before the usual or appointed time: an early dinner.
- belonging to a period far back in time: early French architecture.
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plural ear·lies.
- a fruit or vegetable that appears before most others of its type.
earlier 近义词
former
由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
- Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.
- In 2007, Huckabee said he stood by these earlier remarks, but would phrase them differently.
- He was also a charismatic, telegenic speaker with a face improved by plastic surgery several years earlier.
- An F-35 was destroyed on takeoff earlier in the year when a design flaw in its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine sparked a fire.
- The pilot had earlier called air-traffic control reporting heavy clouds and asked to move up to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet.
- The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.
- But a little earlier still, to be an Infidel was to be an outlaw, subject to the penalty of death.
- The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
- His lordship during the earlier part of his reign never came near Walls End Castle.
- The explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.