| 单词 | early |
| 释义 | early (once / 19 pages) adjadv Something that's early happens right at the beginning of some specific time period, or before you expect it to happen. An early party guest shows up before the party starts. An early riser gets up with the sun every morning, and you might eat an early dinner at five in the evening. If you're in your early twenties, you're closer to 20 than 30, while the early 20th century was the time period before 1950. If a baby comes early, she's born before her expected due date. The Old English source is ærlice, "early," which comes from ær, "soon" or "ere." WORD FAMILYearly: earlier, earliest, earlily, earliness, earlyish+/earliest: earliests USAGE EXAMPLESHer early efforts “looked so bad,” she says. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The 2011 Giants lost four in a row from mid-November to early December, then won four in a row from early January to early February. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Oklahoma led Auburn 21-13 early in the third quarter on Monday night. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time early morning an early warning early diagnosis an early death took early retirement an early spring early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties Syn|Ant aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state advance, beforehandbeing ahead of time or need archaean, archeanof or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon archaeozoic, archeozoicof or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era azoicbefore the appearance of life earlier, earliest(comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early earlyishbeing somewhat early premature, untimelyuncommonly early or before the expected time premature, previoustoo soon or too hasty proterozoicformed in the later of two divisions of the Precambrian era protoindicating the first or earliest or original weevery early firstpreceding all others in time or space or degree middle between an earlier and a later period of time latebeing or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time interveningoccurring or falling between events or points in time midused in combination to denote the middle advanced, ripefar along in time after-hoursafter closing time especially a legally established closing time latishsomewhat late posthumousoccurring or coming into existence after a person's death 2adj being or occurring at an early stage of development in an early stage early forms of life early man an early computer Syn|Ant archaic, primitive little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type new, young(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity crude, primitive, rudebelonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness embryonic, embryoticin an early stage of development inchoate, incipientonly partly in existence; imperfectly formed precociousappearing or developing early late, later at or toward an end or late period or stage of development advancedcomparatively late in a course of development tardivelate-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease) 3adj of an early stage in the development of a language or literature the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C. Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700 Syn|Ant Old of a very early stage in development middle of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages lateof a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages Modern, Newused of a living language; being the current stage in its development Newin use after medieval times 4adj belonging to the distant past the early inhabitants of Europe Syn former, other past earlier than the present time; no longer current 5adj expected in the near future look for an early end to the negotiations Syn future yet to be or coming 6adj very young at an early age Syn immature, young (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth 7adv during an early stage early on in her career Syn early on 8adv before the usual time or the time expected she graduated early Syn|Ant ahead of time, too soon belatedly, late, tardily later than usual or than expected 9adv in good time Syn betimes |
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