earlier than

基本解釋

He arrived earlier than usual.
他到得比往常早。
《新英漢大辭典》
She matured earlier than him.
她比他成熟得早。
It set out a blueprint for privatisation and economic liberalisation, urging cuts in government spending so that the budget could be balanced in 2013, a year earlier than planned.
該信也給出了意大利私有化和經(jīng)濟自由化的一份藍圖，催促縮減政府開銷以期在2013年比計劃早一年就使預(yù)算收支平衡。

Studies show that some American Robins are appearing in their nesting areas two weeks earlier than thirty years ago.
And if you look at the whole story that he tells, that really means quite soon after the fall of the Mycenaean world, probably maybe a century earlier than what Finley suggests.
如果你關(guān)注一下他所描述的內(nèi)容,就會發(fā)現(xiàn)那是在邁錫尼世界瓦解之后,可能要比芬利的觀點還要早一個世紀
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選
You could absolutely implement something more interesting and something even more animated like we saw on Wednesday or even earlier today, but it takes a little more than just a format string.
你絕對可以實施一些更有用的,和一些更愉快的東西，像我們周三或今天早些時候,看到的，但它不只是,格式化字符串。
哈佛公開課 - 計算機科學(xué)課程節(jié)選

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