earlier

earlier

美 [ˈɜrliər]  英 [ˈɜː(r)liə(r)]

  • adv.提前;提早;在早期;在初期
  • adj.早期的;初期的;早先的;早到的
  • n.厄利
  • 网络早的;早些;早前

反义词

adv.

同义词

英汉双解

adj.
1.
早期的;初期的;早先的near the beginning of a period of time, an event etc.
the early morning
清晨
my earliest memories
我最早的记忆
The project is still in the early stages.
这个项目仍处于初期阶段。
the early 1990s
20 世纪 90 年代初
in the early days of space exploration(= when it was just beginning)
在太空探索初期
The earliest possible date I can make it is the third.
我最早也要到三号才有时间。
He's in his early twenties.
他二十出头。
Mozart's early works(= those written at the beginning of his career)
莫扎特的早期作品
Early booking is essential, as space is limited.
座位有限,务必早日预订。
2.
早到的;提前的;提早的arriving, or done before the usual, expected or planned time
You're early! I wasn't expecting you till seven.
你来得真早!我还以为你七点钟才能到呢。
The bus was ten minutes early.
公共汽车早到了十分钟。
an early breakfast
很早的早餐
Let's make an early start tomorrow.
咱们明天一早就出发吧。
She's an early riser(= she gets up early in the morning) .
她是个习惯于早起的人。
He learnt to play the piano at an early age .
他早年就学会了弹钢琴。
early potatoes(= that are ready to eat at the beginning of the season)
早下来的土豆
adv.
1.
在早期;在初期;在开始阶段near the beginning of a period of time, an event, a piece of work, etc.
early in the week/year/season/morning
一周开始时;年初;季度初;一大早
The best rooms go to those who book earliest.
最早预订者可得最好的房间。
We arrived early the next day.
我们第二天很早就到达了。
He started writing music as early as 1989.
他早在 1989 年就开始作曲了。
2.
提早;提前before the usual, expected or planned time
The bus came five minutes early.
公共汽车早到了五分钟。
I woke up early this morning.
我今天早上醒得早。
The baby arrived earlier than expected.
婴儿早产了。
3.
先前;早些时候;…之前before the present time or the time mentioned
As I mentioned earlier…
正如我先前所提到的…
a week earlier
一周前
She had seen him earlier in the day.
她在那天早些时候已见过他。

习惯用语

an early bird
早起者;早到者;赶早者;捷足先登者a person who gets up, arrives, etc. very early
at your earliest convenience
尽早;尽快as soon as possible
Please telephone at your earliest convenience.
请尽早打电话。
the early bird catches the worm
捷足先登;捷足先得the person who takes the opportunity to do sth before other people will have an advantage over them
its early days (yet)
为时尚早;言之过早used to say that it is too soon to be sure how a situation will develop
early on
在初期;在开始阶段;早先at an early stage of a situation, relationship, period of time, etc.
I knew quite early on that I wanted to marry her.
我老早就知道我想娶她。

英汉解释

adv.
1.
“early”的比较级
adj.
1.
“early”的比较级

英英解释

adv.
adj.

例句

Indeed, in earlier cycles, private equity firms have been aggressive about trying to reform ailing financial groups.

实际上在此经济周期私人股本公司一直改革境况不佳金融机构激进态度

Earlier it had been agreed that Andry Rajoelina, who led a coup overthrowing his rival, Marc Ravalomanana, would remain head of state.

早些时候达成协议发动政变推翻对手拉瓦罗马纳纳安德里·拉焦林纳继续担任国家元首

Earlier this year it seemed that the Bank of England's next move might be a rise in interest rates as inflation was taking off again.

今年早些时候英格兰银行下一步行动可能提高利率因为英国通胀显现

But hopes earlier in the day of an imminent deal to end six weeks of crisis appeared to have been dashed.

但是当天早些时候一场即将到来交易结束危机希望好像已经破灭

Trying to get an aspect of MRM to work before earlier steps in the setup process have been completed.

设置过程早期步骤完成之前尝试运行MRM一部分

An earlier California test that had been used determine the range for electric vehicles produced an exaggerated figure in many cases.

先前加州一次测定电动车行驶里程测试很多情况下得出了夸大数据

He notified Buckingham Palace earlier to expect a call from Chretien, not an unreasonable possibility at a time like this.

早些时候通知白金汉宫等候克雷蒂安电话当时情况可能并非不合情理

I found a few quotes and also a channeling from the earlier days of Cloverleaf called BALANCE YOUR LIGHT.

发现少数引证并且来自时期一个通灵称为平衡你们

It was the wreckage of one of their cars, an SUV that had been blown in half earlier in the week.

早些时候SUV

I'd try to get up 15 minutes earlier each day to run, and the running would leave me very tired but I still had a day ahead of me.

每天早上提早15分钟起床跑步已经觉得但是一天工作刚刚开始

He promised me that he'd help me, but he seemed to be going back on what he said earlier.

允诺帮助似乎背弃早先说的话

Ms Liu at Foxconn can now save at double the rate used to, and plans to marry a year earlier.

如今富士员工刘丽萍每月以往计划提前结婚

For testing purposes, I recommend that you add a trace statement to the beginning of each of the interface methods I discussed earlier.

出于测试目的建议前面讨论过每个接口方法开头添加跟踪语句

As stated earlier, pauses are placed throughout the code for you to be able to check how the database is affected by the application's code.

代码很多地方穿插pause方法调用以便观察应用程序代码数据库影响

D---When a participant chose the earlier reward, there was an increase in the activity of his limbic system.

一个参与者选择先期报酬大脑边缘系统活动增强

Thus, they see the sun rise later and set earlier than it does for a horizon without obstruction, she said.

因此毫无遮挡情况来说他们看到太阳升起一些落下一些

On Wednesday, however, he was able to leave work a little earlier, so he trained in the evening, which always felt easier.

然而星期三可以提前一点下班所以傍晚时候训练使感觉早上训练轻松

But it is not impossible that it (or its ancestor species) might have lived during earlier time periods in the European archipelago.

不过祖先物种不可能时间欧洲群岛生活

Nine months earlier, he'd handed Harrington, a longtime friend, a container of his sperm to take with her to a fertility doctor.

九个亨德里克斯交给哈林顿——认识朋友精子医生进行人工受精

At the hotel he found Joe, too busy all day with the laundry to have come to him earlier.

旅馆发现成天忙于洗衣店事务

Edwina had banished her earlier impatience.

埃德温娜自己刚才那样露出不耐烦样子

Is magic to be regarded as an earlier and more primitive form of science, or is it not?

魔力能不能视为科学一种早期比较原始方式

New classical theories of economic growth were described earlier, in Chapter 3.

第三我们介绍古典主义经济增长理论

He remembered having rattled in earlier days.

记得年轻时代也曾夸夸其谈

New data sustained our earlier findings.

论据证实以前所得数据

He asked me the history of my earlier years.

早年生活情况

Here is a rather earlier example than those quoted above from the press.

报刊引用上述那些例证来说下面一个相当用例

The boss responded, "In that case you should have caught the earlier bus. "

老板随口:“这样辆车。”

The D-day force had arrived an hour earlier.

D行动人员提前小时到达

This study builds on earlier work.

研究以往工作基础进行

The family, as it considerably falls under modern conditions, has estimation in which it was held by an earlier generation.

现代条件家庭地位已经一落千丈早些世代那样尊重

The present position of the house coincides with that of an earlier dwelling.

房子现在位置住宅位置一致

The body of the general was reinterred at his native town in the earlier years of the 20th century.

这位将军遗体20世纪初期家乡

The company lost $7 million this quarter in contrast to a profit of $6. 2 million a year earlier.

这家公司季度亏损700万去年同期620万赢利形成对照

Alex Vandervoort observed, "Ben, we're all upset. I'm especially sorry for something I said earlier. "

亚历克斯·范德沃特:“我们难受特别刚才的话难过。”

A few minutes earlier she had looked with love and gratitude at their own two healthy, normal children.

几分之前充满爱慕感激端详健康正常孩子

In earlier times, experience alone, in as many departments of a hotel as possible, was considered the appropriate background.

早先具有旅馆尽可能部门经验视为特定条件

It seemed that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20, 000 years earlier than has been supposed.

看来人类我们设想二万已经认真努力弄懂季节变化

Her later work does not bear comparison with her earlier novels.

后期作品比不上早期小说

Her earlier terror deepened as she considered for the first time what might happen if she lost her job.

这时第一想到要是饭碗发生什么样后果先前那种恐怖顿时加深

In spite of her earlier prejudices she knew now that he and she had one god in common-Art.

以前成见可是现在知道一个共同崇拜对象就是艺术

Earlier in this section, we noted that the tails of the normal distribution approach but never touch the horizontal axis.

前面已经指示正态分布近于横轴永远横轴相交

Tom was not listening, and an earlier clause of the document was puzzling him.

汤姆没有——这个文件前面使莫名其妙

About, 5, 000 B. C. , or earlier, the traces of these primitive peoples ceased, and the true Egyptians appeared on the scene.

大约公元千年一些时候这些原始民族遗迹消失真正埃及人登上舞台

Obviously, the earlier you can detect this kind of problem, the better your chances of solving it.

当然一些发觉问题顺利解决可能性

Nim's tension of a moment earlier dissolved.

尼姆方感到紧张一下子化为乌有

This information will be amalgamated with information obtained earlier.

这个信息早先得到信息综合一起

Earlier prose is neither ponderous, flowery nor oratorical.

早期呆板华丽做作

The larger and more varied family units of earlier days probably also served to cushion the shocks of generational conflicts.

早先较大多样化家庭可能充当减缓一代一代冲撞软垫

The results are entirely consistent with our earlier research.

这些结果我们早些时候研究完全吻合

This book is one of their earlier publications and is a must-read for any Java programmer who wants to be good at writing unit tests.

这本他们早期作品之一一个想要编写单元测试用例Java程序员书籍

If the doctor had come a little earlier last night, he would not have had a high fever.

如果昨晚医生来得一点今天不会高烧

The last figures, for June, showed Chinese copper imports running at almost quadruple their rate of a year earlier.

最新数据显示今年6月,中国进口几乎去年同期4倍。

It also reminded me of what I'd noted in the supermarket a few days earlier as I was looking for lotion for dry skin.

想起几天超市看到超市适用皮肤护肤

In an earlier press release issued on February 6, the Ministry of Defense said the vessel's sonar dome had been damaged in a collision.

二月六号法国媒体声称国防部潜艇声纳碰撞损坏

Yemen said at the time that it was the last shipment from an earlier missile purchase and would not be repeated .

也门当时最后一次由于先前北韩导弹购买交易运送武器以后不会

Osirak was a lone, poorly guarded, and inoperative nuclear plant that had a year earlier been damaged by an Iranian airstrike.

奥西拉克只是孤立守卫起作用工厂早年伊朗空袭破坏

As noted earlier, a large project is often broken into smaller sub-projects.

之前提到一个大型项目通过分解多个项目

But I wasn't in the mood, not after repeatedly getting lost while trying to cycle out of Vienna earlier that day.

但是那天上午骑车离开维也纳几次变得一点没有情绪

Compared with his earlier painting works, this series carries with it a feeling of ease though accompanied with a sense of self-mockery.

之前绘画作品相比一系列作品虽然带有自嘲携带轻松自在情绪

Women were in a more difficult position than men since in earlier times, girls were not allowed to be educated.

自古以来女性地位男性女孩子以前不能得到教育

Earlier this year he said the only good thing about 2011 for Spain was that it would be better than 2012.

今年年初谈及有关2011年西班牙好处唯一一点2012更好

In September, Old Navy reported that sales at stores open at least a year increased 13% from a year earlier.

今年9月,OldNavy公布销售额去年同期增长13%。

He said: 'Buying the dessert was a real boost for my morale. I was dumped earlier this year and felt this could be a decent pick-me-up.

甜点可以鼓舞士气今年年初觉得这个提神东西

And we are still trying to get up with the chickens because our work hours are starting earlier and earlier, " he said. "

我们又要努力早起因为我们工作时间开始越来越。”

Earlier, statements in the Iranian media suggested that Iran is not ready to send its enriched uranium abroad.

此前伊朗媒体声明表明伊朗没有准备浓缩铀运往国外

The central government has weighed in as well, raising back value added tax rebates for a range of exports that had been trimmed earlier.

中央政府出面援手提高早先一系列产品增值税出口退税

bear resemblance to the Shang oracles. It is believed that the decoding of these earlier forms is only a matter of time.

以前甲骨文相似陶符文字释读仅仅一个时间问题

Why don't we make more of an effort to buy earlier, or to wait for a few months until the market cools again?

为何我们努力早点或者干脆几个等到市场再次降温呢?

This year, make a little money is not easy to break earlier.

年头容易早点休息

If they had only arrived earlier!

要是他们当初早点

To show this we proceed as earlier.

为了证明一点我们前面那样

You oughta go earlier.

应该早点