already
/ɑlˈɹɛdi/ 副词 A1中文： 已经、已、都、早已
- Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. · I was surprised that she hadn’t already told me the news.· Much of what he said I knew already.
- So soon. · Are you quitting already?
- An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation. · I wish they'd finish already, so we can get going.· Enough already!
- Indicates the completion of an action (whether past or hypothetical), or more generally, perfective aspect. · You frame the picture for me already anot?
- Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect. · I don’t think he can take it already.· Your ice cream is melting already.
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The house seems a different place already.
The Duchess took no notice of them even when they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already, that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.
She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look of things at all, as the game was in such confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or not.
I dearly love her already.
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