英 [ˈɜ:lɪə(r)] 美 [ˈɜːrliər]
adv. 早些时候地
adj. 早些时候的
earlier /ˈɜːlɪə/
Earlier is the comparative of . (early)的比较级
副词 Earlier is used to refer to a point or period in time before the present or before the one you are talking about. 早些时候地
As mentioned earlier, the university supplements this information with an interview.
正如早些时候提到的，该大学用一次采访来补充这个资料。
...political reforms announced by the president earlier this year.
…今年早些时候总统宣布的政治改革。
形容词 Earlier is also an adjective. 早些时候的
Earlier reports of gunshots have not been substantiated.
早先关于枪击的报道还没有被证实。
(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
同义词： earliest
earlier in time; previously
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
同义词： before
before now
同义词： in the first place / in the beginning / to begin with / originally
） 而马琳(Ma Lin)和白杨更早(Earlier)：在2001年九运会前，两人就曾经在一道。
本来的着法是：车七平四，象5进3，（再早些(Earlier)是车1平6，一个故事如果没有开始是很荒谬的事，可世上的事也许原本就是这样，仅仅一个瞬间就注定了一切。
至于毗邻第五及第六地段的第七及第八地段，金沙早前(Earlier)的批地请求遭否决，对此后者已向澳门法院提出上诉，目前有待裁决。
之所以要方便的来谈，是由于走地盘的操纵看似轻易，实践很庞杂，我在前文(Earlier)也说过，伤人之语，如水覆地，难以挽回。承诺是一件美好的事情，但美好的东西往往不会变为现实。
I lost my job earlier this year.
今年早些时候，我失业了。
The baby arrived earlier than expected.
婴儿早产了。
The text varies from the earlier versions.
这一文本有别于那些早期的版本。
But that was less than they fell at the end of two thousand eight compared to a year earlier.
VOA : special.2009.05.29
What happens to those resources that the great modernist writers endowed language with so powerfully earlier in the century?
本世纪早期,杰出的现代主义作家们如此给力,地赋予语言一些资源？
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Yeats develops this idea or develops another version of it in a somewhat earlier poem that's interesting in relation to this one.
叶芝进一步发展了这一想法,并在早期的一首诗里,写了另一个版本,那首与这首的关系很有趣。
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Julius so liked the work of Raphael that he told the artist to remove earlier paintings in the Pope's living areas.
VOA : special.2010.02.03
A few months earlier, the government of President George Washington had started a contest for the best design for the Capitol.
VOA : special.2010.01.27
Unarmed police then arrived to investigate the workers' earlier reports and were attacked, said Ms Hou.
Competition from ICE drove Nymex into the arms of the Merc earlier this year.
He has broken sharply with the fiscal pattern of earlier Labour governments in one respect, however.