early
/ˈɝli/ 形容词 A2中文： 早
- At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. · at eleven, we went for an early lunch; she began reading at an early age; his mother suffered an early death
- Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. · You're early today! I don't usually see you before nine o'clock.· The early guests sipped their punch and avoided each other's eyes.
- After but close to the start of a period of time. · The play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" is one of Shakespeare's early works.· Early results showed their winning 245 out of 300 seats in parliament. The main opponent locked up only 31 seats.
- In the starting hours of the day. · It's too early for this sort of thing. I'm not awake yet.
- Having begun to occur; in its early stages. · early cancer· harvesting early peaches
- Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.
比较级 earlier · 最高级 earliest
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When he reached Bright River there was no sign of any train; he thought he was too early, so he tied his horse in the yard of the small Bright River hotel and went over to the station house.
She was sitting there one afternoon in early June.
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.
Teddy and his mother and father were there at early breakfast, but Rikki-tikki saw that they were not eating anything.
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