记忆方法
将“early”与“air”结合记忆，想象“air”变成了早起的鸟类，在清晨的空气中活动，这样就能形象地记住“early”意味着“早的”或“早起的”。
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词族 · early
词形变化
中文词源
early 早的
来自PIE*ayer, 早晨，词源同ere, erstwhile. -ly, 形容词后缀。
英语词源
- early
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early: [OE] Broken down into its equivalent parts in modern English, early means ‘before-ly’. It was a compound formed from Old English ǣr (ancestor of modern English ere ‘before’) and the adverb ending -ly, modelled probably on the parallel Old Norse form árligr. Ere itself was actually originally a comparative form, which before it was used for ‘before’ meant ‘earlier’.
Old English ǣr came from prehistoric Germanic *airiz, the comparative form of *air ‘early’. Related forms in other Indo-European languages, such as Greek eri ‘in the morning’ and Avestan (the sacred form of Old Iranian) ayarə ‘day’, suggest that its underlying meaning is ‘early in the morning’.
=> ere - early (adv.)
- Old English ærlice "early," from ær "soon, ere" (see ere) + -lice, adverbial suffix (see -ly (2)). Compare Old Norse arliga "early." The adjective is Old English ærlic. The early bird of the proverb is from 1670s. Related: Earlier; earliest.
权威例句
- 1. Early American weathervanes were most often cut from flat wooden boards.
- 美国早期的风向标大多截自平直的木板。
- 2. Ethiopia'sart springs from her early Christian as well as her Muslim heritage.
- 埃塞俄比亚的艺术起源于其早期的基督教和伊斯兰教文化遗产。
- 3. A Delta II rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral early this morning.
- 今天一早，一枚“德尔塔”Ⅱ型火箭在卡纳维拉尔角发射升空。
- 4. Two trains collided head-on in north-eastern Germany early this morning.
- 今天早上德国东北部两列火车迎面相撞。
- 5. If cancers are spotted early there'sa high chance of survival.
- 如果癌症在早期发现的话，存活的几率会很高。