| 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)—Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history—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—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)—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)—Triad Society (early Qing anti-Manchu secret society)—Donadi Niccolò di Betto Bardi, famous early renaissance painter and sculptor—provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)—Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party—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—Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940—early stage of game, match, work, activity etc—the late Qin and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911—provincial military governor during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)—being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)—Yao Bin (1957-), PRC champion ice skater during early 1980s and more recently national skating coach—Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), British adventurer and archaeologist who explorer Xinjiang in early 20th century— |