| 释义 |
earlier adjective (comparative)—Examples:lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom); to compensate later for one's earlier loss—shift to an earlier date—already at an earlier time—regret not having met earlier (idiom); It is nice to meet you finally.—If I had known earlier...—bring forward (to an earlier time)—if one had known earlier,...—make up for an earlier mistake—forming a bridge between earlier and later stages—"Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951-52—Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist—oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)—She Xiang (c. 1361-1396), lady who served as Yi ethnic group leader in Yunnan in early Ming times—Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)—Wu Jiajing (1618-1684), early Qing dynasty poet—early Tang literary style despised as shallow by the classicists—late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD)—Li Yu (1611-c. 1680), late Ming and early Qing writer and dramatist—rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard—lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom); fig. work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities—Paracelsius (Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541), Swiss alchemist and prominent early European scientist—Rutherford (Earnest, an early nuclear physicist from New Zealand)—Triad Society (early Qing anti-Manchu secret society)—Donadi Niccolò di Betto Bardi, famous early renaissance painter and sculptor—Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer—provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)—alliance with Russia (e.g. of early Chinese communists)—Bamboo Annals, early chronicle of Chinese ancient history, written c. 300 BC—Zhangsun Wuji (c. 594-659), politician and historian of early Tang—Wang Shichong (-621), general of late Sui and opponent of early Tang—early stage of game, match, work, activity etc—the late Qin and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911—being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)—Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration—Yao Bin (1957-), PRC champion ice skater during early 1980s and more recently national skating coach—modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th early 20th century)—twelve divisions of the day of early Chinese and Babylonian time-keeping and astronomy—consultative conference (political venue during early communist rule)— |