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earliness

/ur-lee/US // ˈɜr li //UK // (ˈɜːlɪ) //

早期,早期性,尽早,早期阶段

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
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    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.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    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.
    • : occurring in the near future: I look forward to an early reply.
    • : appearing or maturing before most others of its type: early apples.
n.名词 noun
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    plural ear·lies.

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

Phrases

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Working two guided trips a summer could earn early guides enough to buy a few more cows and raise the quality of life of an entire extended family.

  • They pointed to an earlier message McCoy posted prior to his apology giving a different reason for deleting his post about obese people.

  • The earlier proposal called for a 25,599-square-foot building.

  • To find the case assignments that went to ineligible attorneys, we compared the assignment date to the earliest date that an attorney appeared on a list in any court in the state.

  • In the earlier cold snap, the grid was pushed to the limit and rolling blackouts swept the state, spurring an angry Legislature to order a study of what went wrong.

  • When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

  • It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.

  • At first—it was the early stages of reporting—I was amused at having been so crassly underestimated.

  • Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.

  • Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

  • The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  • When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.

  • In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.

  • He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.

  • Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.