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a. 早的,初期的

  1. The earliest extant manuscript of this poem has been kept in the museum.
    此诗现存最早的原稿收藏在这座博物馆里。
  2. Beiyang Navy is the earliest naval force of China.
    北洋水师是中国最早的海军部队。


earliest
[ adv ]
  1. with the least delay

  2. <adv.all>
    the soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M.
[ 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.

earliest \earliest\ adj.
preceding all others in time.

Syn: premier, premiere.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. The saddest episode of all is his inexplicable failure to turn this dream of a perfect love into a reality. Mallarme was one of the earliest of the younger French poets to recognise Baudelaire's poetic mastery.
  2. The new contracts wouldn't begin trading until sometime next year at the earliest, said Chicago Merc's president, William Brodsky.
  3. Last Spring, Mr. Stern says, Chase officials told him in a meeting they would call in his loans at the earliest legal date.
  4. The earliest accounts of China Jews go back before the journey of Italian explorer Marco Polo into China in the l3th century, the Jews apparently having gone there from ancient Israel or other parts of the Middle East.
  5. One of the earliest columns I wrote for this page said that while television fiction was fun, fact was the real thing; when done well, documentary and current affairs programmes represented the pinnacle of television's achievements.
  6. Pilot union Chairman Frederick C. Dubinsky said advisers to UAL management and the union will begin meeting in New York today and will work through the weekend to devise a new proposal to present to UAL's board "at the earliest time possible."
  7. But the report noted that not all lost ground has been regained and even the benchmark _ the earliest assessments _ is considered below par.
  8. But most White House insiders don't expect a decision before June at the earliest.
  9. Separately, the Energy Department doesn't expect to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until next month at the earliest, barring more fighting.
  10. "My feeling is that it's going to be an economic project, but I want to see the numbers before I commit," said Mr. Bigelow, who believes the project won't be completed until 1993, "at the earliest."
  11. "From our earliest days, to finish school somehow, we had to pretend that we believed in official stories, while in fact we believed in things that were forbidden," Kapor said in a recent column in the Belgrade daily newspaper Politika.
  12. Robert Crippen, director of the shuttle program, said NASA would conduct a tanking test, on Sunday at the earliest, in an attempt to pinpoint the source of the leak.
  13. The EPA will not use its proposed backup system until 1996 at the earliest because of confidence in current efforts, said David Howekamp, chief of air and toxics for the agency.
  14. In the 1970s, he helped Pennzoil plan some of the earliest and most notable corporate spinoffs and the first public effort to raise funds for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
  15. May we only pray that history repeats itself at the earliest opportunity." A writer to the Guardian asks, "When and in what circumstances could the Gulf war justifiably be named the Third World War?"
  16. Every year, ski resorts are desperate to tell the world they have opened on the earliest possible date - sometimes ridiculously early. In its traditional battle to be first, Keystone pulled off a master-stroke to scupper Loveland, its local rival.
  17. From their earliest days together, John Sununu and Bill Zeliff were among the insiders offering advice to George Bush in his New Hampshire presidential primary campaigns.
  18. The Bonn government and the Bundesbank, however, maintain that the band widening leaves the EC fundamentally on track for the Maastricht aim of achieving Emu by 1997 at the earliest and 1999 at the latest.
  19. The earliest another launch could be attempted is the middle of next week, said Bob Sieck, launch director for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  20. Operating profits rose 13 per cent to Pounds 1.5m. The group, which has cash deposits of Pounds 30m, also stressed its determination to seek a suitable acquisition at the earliest opportunity.
  21. It was founded around 2700 BC and burnt down around 2200, probably in war. Our earliest substantial buildings are of the second settlement (2100-1850), the period when the first palaces were built.
  22. James Brolin plays Martin Shrevelowe, an architect and former track star who wants his son to excel in college track and field. Glen's earliest memories are those of his father's embrace and praise after an athletic event.
  23. Under questioning by Downey, Enoff denied that the draft regulations were developed to cut the number of appeals. "Our primary concern is getting the correct decision at the earliest point in the process," he said.
  24. The committee isn't likely to vote on Judge Bork's nomination until Oct. 1 at the earliest.
  25. Miro's apparent enthusiasm for things big and small, and his restlessly inventive imagination, evident from his earliest to his last works, provide an absorbing and fascinating experience.
  26. There was no further counting Sunday, and the earliest results were expected Monday.
  27. "It is the earliest complete book of Psalms, at the same time written in a new dialect for scholars, and we have its whole history," said Martin Krause, Coptic studies professor of Munster University in West Germany.
  28. Final results were not expected until Tuesday at earliest.
  29. Having been one of the first companies to reflect the severity of the downturn in 1990, Great Portland is now among the earliest to demonstrate the speed of the upturn.
  30. I got what I wanted." The case probably will be tried in late August or early September at the earliest, Solicitor Wade Kolb has said.
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