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earlier

/ˈɝliɚ/ 副词 C2

中文: 早些时候、以前、先前

  1. previously; before now; sooner · I shall be late because I didn't start earlier.· They were looking for some measuring equipment they had placed in the ice earlier.
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“The history is a sad one, sir,” said Caderousse, shaking his head; “perhaps you know all the earlier part of it?”
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第297页 · C1
If he only had spoken earlier!
《Six stories from The Four Million》,第12页 · C1
Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第1页 · C1
I shall entreat his pardon for not having done it earlier.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第110页 · B2

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