抢先之州：美国俄克拉何马州的别称。
又有着抢先之州 (Sooner State) 的美名，任何竞赛都会全力以赴
... 俄克拉荷马(Oklahoma): 快些州(Sooner State) 俄勒冈(Oregon): ...
为此，俄克拉荷马后来获得了捷足者之州(Sooner State)的别称。
但是俄克拉何马的别称便是“捷足先登之州”（Sooner State），因此不排除在2010年夏天的时候，雷霆在抢占大牌自由球员的时候也来一次“捷足先登”。
It may, in fact, even allow the industry to move beyond the creaking technology of the past few decades, selling state of the art reactors much sooner than it might have otherwise.
事实上，这可能甚至会促使该行业彻底抛弃过去数十年勉强运行的技术，提前推出最先进的核反应堆。
The more we desire this top state the sooner it comes.
我们越是渴望这种最高境界，就会越快达到。
The Great Plains state of Oklahoma is called the Sooner State.
VOA : special.2009.08.23
Their crime: trying to curb the spending excesses of Sooner State politicians.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has told her legislature that the Sooner State will face high economic hurdles in the future if it is an income-tax sandwich between Texas and Kansas.
Myanmar may go from cruel repression to failed state sooner than many think, and in Sri Lanka, Tamils and Sinhalese are at each other's throats again, urgently drawing international peacemakers.