【early音标】 英[ˈɜ:li] 美[ˈɜ:rli]
【单词释义】 early是什么意思：
adj.早的；早期的；早日的；（果实等）早熟的
adv.早；在初期；先前；提早
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[比较级] earlier [最高级] earliest
【单词例句】
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Apollo was me sun-god.He wore a purple robe,He usually sat in his bright eastern palace early in the morning and made ready to start his daily journey across the sky.
阿波罗是太阳神。清晨他身着紫色袍，坐在那明亮的东方宫殿，准备开始每日穿越天空的旅行。
---- Apollo
◇ The devil appeared very early in the morning, but he could not approach her.
恶魔很早就来了，可就是没法靠近姑娘。
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ News of Drake's success brought oil prospectors to the scene. By the early 1860's these wildcatters were drilling for "black gold" all over western Pennsylvania.
瑞克成功的消息将石油勘探者们吸引到现场。 截止到19世纪60年代早期，这些冒险者为寻找"黑色的金子"钻探遍了整个宾西法尼亚西部。
---- Oil Refining
◇ Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary.
制造一台有效率的冰箱不像我们想象的那么简单。 19世纪早期，关于对冷藏科学至关重要的热物理知识是很浅陋的。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ Scientists hope the explosion — known as a gamma-ray burst because it emits energy in the form of gamma radiation — will shed light on the earliest stages in the evolution of the stars and galaxies.
科学家希望这次爆炸 —— 就是众所周知的伽马射线爆炸，因为它以伽马放射的方式散发能量 —— 在星球进化的早期能够显现出来。
---- The Big Bang
◇ Still, others argue that reverence for the fourth finger began as an early Christian ritual. While crossing themselves in an Orthodox Church, worshipers are expected to join the thumb with the index and middle fingers.
但仍有其他人争论说，对无名指的敬意源自基督教早期的一种仪式。在东正教教堂里画十字时，信徒们须将拇指和食指、中指相连。
---- Why are wedding rings worn on the left hand?
◇ "By expanding it, China will not be as nearly dependent on exports for economic growth as in its earlier economic development phase. This will create an even larger economic base inside China to sustain its economic growth," Foster said.
福斯特说：“通过发展国内市场，中国将不再像经济发展初期那样依赖于出口。这将进一步夯实中国内部经济基础，使经济可持续增长。”
---- Eliminating poverty builds larger market
◇ The experiment began in early March and will conclude in mid-April, after which productivity data will be collated and analysed. Employees will find out if the new routine will be adopted full-time in July.
这次试验是从三月初开始的，将在四月中旬结束，之后会整理和分析生产率数据。该工作制是否会长期实施将在7月揭晓。
---- New Zealand employees try four-day week
◇ Back before alphabets and writing, early human languages were surprisingly... uncolorful. There were words for "black" and "white' and "red" but not much else.
在字母和书写出现之前，早期人类语言“色彩单调”得让人惊诧。表示颜色的词只有“黑”、“白”和“红”。
---- Why so many fast food logos are red
◇ Being fit earlier in life is associated with a reduced risk, in some cases of up to 42%, of developing nine different types of cancer in later life, according to a large long-term study.
一项大型长期研究显示，年轻时身强体健可以降低年老时患上9种不同癌症的风险，某些情况下甚至能将风险降低42%之多。