Earlier

['ɜ:lɪə] [ˈɝlɪr]
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  • adj.
    earlier的反义词之:较早的
    later
英语四级真题
  • These findings echo earlier research that suggests our perception of food can sometimes trick our body's response to the food itself.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • I'm afraid I can't come any earlier because I have three classes this afternoon.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • And the Swedes makes most of it often they started work earlier in summer and then leave at about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so that they can really enjoy the long summer evenings.
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • Jane should have started a little earlier.
    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older.
    出自-2010年12月听力原文
  • Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime.
    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Consider trying to remember where you parked your car in the same car park you were at a week earlier.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Earlier this morning, the office asked for the public's help to measure their speed results, saying consumers deserved to get the speeds they were promised.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord with UNESCO to establish a task force of police art detectives and archaeologists (考古学家) to protect cultural heritage from natural disasters and terror groups, such as IsiS.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Just hours earlier, Uganda's police chief had warned of possible Christmas- time attacks by Somali rebels.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The maker of Mountain Dew and Gatorade has been one of the earlier movers in the industry to offer products with reduced levels of unhealthy ingredients—PepsiCo claims a packet of its chips now contains less salt than a slice of white bread.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
英语六级真题
  • One recent change in college admissions is that selective colleges and universities have moved the traditional deadline to earlier dates.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on," says Michael Hout, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Americans today have more free time than earlier generations
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • I ran earlier and asked for some information about Dennis Hutton, the scientist.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep mysteries of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • Baby girls usually talk at an earlier age than boys do.
    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • Girls seem to start reasoning earlier than boys
    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • And the Swedes makes most of it often they started work earlier in summer and then leave at about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so that they can really enjoy the long summer evenings.
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl
    2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • As I said earlier, it’s mostly vegetables.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly confirm earlier studies.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Each featuring a different researcher, one of whom they'd met once two years earlier.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Earlier this month a separate study found that a combination of climate change and industrial fishing is threatening the krill (磷虾) population in Antarctic waters, with a potentially disastrous impact on whales, seals and penguins.
    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Hacker's argument has met with opposition from other math educators who say what's needed is to help students develop a better relationship with math earlier, rather than teaching them less math altogether.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • In an earlier time, American fashion had also followed the dictates of Paris, or even copied and pirated specific French designs.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Still, if late sleepers want to lose a few pounds, they can go to bed earlier than they usually do, thereby reducing their chances of taking snacks before bedtime.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 
  • Studies have found obesity is associated with impairments in cognitive functioning, as assessed by a range of learning and memory tests, such as the ability to remember a list of words presented some minutes or hours earlier.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • The hills are remnants of an earlier geological era, scraped bare of most soil and exposed to the elements.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • There may be a third factor that impacts both of them, or the relationship could be reversed, that is people who eat less fall asleep earlier.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 
  • They cited a study presented earlier this year of 249 pairs of parents and their children in which twice as many children as parents wanted rules on what parents could share.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Twenge's team's analysis of the answers confirmed the earlier, well-established well-being climb, with scores rising across the 1990s, and into the later 2000s.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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英英词典释义
  • Adjective
    1. (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early;
    "a fashion popular in earlier times""his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher""Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
  • Adverb
    1. earlier in time; previously;
    "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';
    "Come a little sooner, if you can""came earlier than I expected"
    3. before now;
    "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"