| 单词 | early-morning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearly-morning C1. In noun phrases used attributively, with the sense ‘occurring at or near the beginning of the specified period of time or sequence of events’ as early-morning, early-season, etc. ΚΠ 1807 Evangelical Mag. Dec. 561/2 She..punctually attended..early morning prayer-meetings. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 65 The pottery has a very early-man look about it. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 9 Jan. 2/1 The shock of that early-dawn disaster. 1906 Daily Chron. 2 June 9/1 The abolition of early-season events for two-year-olds. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 8/2 Much of the early-morning work is performed entirely alone. 1916 R. Frost Let. 8 Aug. (1964) 41 Regarded as an attack of early-marriage nerves, it seems even a little funny. 1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West iii. 61 The first recipient of her early-morning tea. 2008 Boston Standard (Nexis) 12 June The pair had become stuck in early morning traffic on their way to Pilgrim Hospital. < as lemmas |
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