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 earlier ['ə:liə] 添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 早的,初期的
ad. 早地,初期的

  1. The earlier revolts had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution.
    那些初期的反叛活动只不过是大规模革命行动的演习。
  2. Occurring before in time; earlier.
    先前的时间上先发生的；较早的


earlier
[ adv ]
  1. earlier in time; previously

    2. <adv.all>
    I had known her before
    as I said before
    he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier
    her parents had died four years earlier
    I mentioned that problem earlier
  2. comparatives of `soon' or `early'

    3. <adv.all>
    Come a little sooner, if you can
    came earlier than I expected
  3. before now

    4. <adv.all>
    why didn't you tell me in the first place?
[ adj ]
  1. (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early

    2. <adj.all>
    a fashion popular in earlier times
    his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher
    Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera


Early \Ear"ly\, a. [Compar. {Earlier} ([~e]r"l[i^]*[~e]r);
superl. {Earliest}.] [OE. earlich. [root]204. See {Early},
adv.]
1. In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season;
prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to
{late}; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
--Burke.

The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass
springing up about them. --Hawthorne.

2. Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the
first of successive acts, events, etc.

Seen in life's early morning sky. --Keble.

The forms of its earlier manhood. --Longfellow.

The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth
summer. --J. C.
Shairp.

{Early English} (Philol.) See the Note under {English}.

{Early English architecture}, the first of the pointed or
Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style
in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Syn: Forward; timely; not late; seasonable.

earlier \earlier\ adj.
occurring at a prior time; as, on earlier occasions.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. The earlier rallies, part of a nation-wide wave of student demonstrations, finally were crushed by the government.
  2. He said six Indians arrested at Kingsville in south Texas earlier Thursday told agents that alien smugglers had made arrangements for their trip at Casa Romero and had picked them up there.
  3. Coniston, which owns nearly 6 percent of Gillette stock, forced the proxy vote earlier this year in hopes of winning four directors' seats to pressure the 12-member Gillette board to sell the company.
  4. After reports earlier this year linked the apple pesticide Alar to cancer risks in children, supermarkets had to act "to head off a flap," he says.
  5. The KIO has earlier changed and stopped the flow of funds to Spanish assets. A spokesman for Grupo Torras, the KIO's holding company in Spain, said yesterday: 'We cannot make Prima viable in the present environment'.
  6. Zevulun Hammer of the National Religious Party, religious affairs minister, said earlier Monday he was trying to find common ground.
  7. She is Gail Palmer-Slater, 35, of Port Huron, Mich., a business entrepreneur and former porn film producer who had written Thompson several weeks earlier saying she wanted to meet him.
  8. The General Electric Company had a look at the business earlier this year, but was not prepared to pay enough.
  9. President Reagan earlier had asked federal agencies to cut that time "by at least a third."
  10. Sweetened terms set earlier this year called for shareholders of Maxxam, a forest-product and real estate concern, to receive 0.18 MCO common share and one new Class B preferred share for each of their shares.
  11. But earlier heavy issuance of Remic deals that settle in December is creating a groundswell of demand for the securities that back those offerings.
  12. Wheat and corn prices were up slightly while soybeans were down from a month earlier.
  13. The results compare with earnings of Dollars 124.3m, or 67 cents, on sales of Dollars 1.47bn a year earlier.
  14. Hungary, for example, lacks the domestic market of Poland, but embarked on market-type reforms much earlier while both the Hungarians and the Czechs have greater access to international capital markets.
  15. The bill passed the lower house of the Diet earlier this month, but the ruling Liberal Demoratic Party lacks a majority in the upper house and couldn't enlist sufficient opposition support for the measure.
  16. In the first quarter, however, net imports totaled about 8.8 billion kwh, up 2.4% from a year earlier.
  17. The FDIC revised its report for 1989 bank profits to $15.7 billion, down $600 million from an earlier report.
  18. The company emerged from the development stage and became profitable earlier this year.
  19. Revenue rose 7%, to $68.7 million from $64 million a year earlier.
  20. Police said they stopped the car because Papa and Rampersant matched the description of a holdup team that had stolen $10 and a ring from a woman on a Coney Island street six days earlier.
  21. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the pair was arrested earlier in the week after arriving at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport on flights from London.
  22. The fire that gutted a small but critical telephone-switching station outside Chicago earlier this month virtually shut down United Stationers Inc., an office-products wholesaler with $730 million in annual sales.
  23. The plane landed near Managua to refuel earlier in the day, where the residents had fought with police, Munoz said.
  24. Group pretax profit for 1991 fell 19% from a year earlier to 63.59 billion yen ($490 million).
  25. A year earlier, California REIT earned $4.6 million, or $1.05 a share, including a $2.1 million gain on real estate sales.
  26. The Senate earlier in the week rejected some of the same smog controls.
  27. Sun said full-year net would fall about 28% to about $380 million, or $3.54 a share, from $527 million, or $4.72 a share, a year earlier.
  28. Independent but unconfirmed reports earlier said 30 soldiers and four civilians were killed.
  29. American Hoist & Derrick lost 1 1/8 to 9 5/8 after reporting that its earnings for the third quarter ended Aug. 31 dropped sharply from a year earlier.
  30. A year earlier, Old Stone reported a loss of $6.17 a share, including provisions for loan losses and real estate-related investments.
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