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early adjective—早 adj (often used) 早期 adj Examples:"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)—the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century)—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—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—Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)—rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard—oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)—lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom); fig. work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities—Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day (in early April)—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)—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)—Chen Gongyin (1631-1700), early Qing dynasty poet—Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party—Bamboo Annals, early chronicle of Chinese ancient history, written c. 300 BC—Zhangsun Wuji (c. 594-659), politician and historian of early Tang—Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940—Sumer (Šumer), one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East—the late Qin and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911—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)— |