Sooner
['suːnə] or [sunɚ]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) comparatives of `soon' or `early'; 'Come a little sooner, if you can'; 'came earlier than I expected'.
校對:瓦珥--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- He had not dared to tell it sooner. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Couldn't we have gotten away any sooner? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- To-morrow will see all my doubts in a fair way of being cleared up, sooner or later. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- No sooner does an article become extensively used than a machine is made for turning it out automatically. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Yes; and now get it ready as quickly as you can, for the sooner we have tea over the sooner they will go--at least, I hope so. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Every time her hand searched for either of these, it would touch the book; and, sooner or later (who knows? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I would sooner go--somewhere else. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sooner or later I will solve all these problems which are now so tantalizing; but, come what may, one good thing is in store for me. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I would sooner have married her myself, he said in a low voice. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- If that is the way human societies organize sovereignty, the sooner we face that fact the better. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The door was no sooner opened than all doubt on the subject was removed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The sooner the engagement's off, the better. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- No, nor nobody never did; but now she's dead, we've got to bury her; and that's the direction; and the sooner it's done, the better. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
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