Sooner

(adv.) comparatives of `soon' or `early'; 'Come a little sooner, if you can'; 'came earlier than I expected'.

校对:瓦珥

• He had not dared to tell it sooner. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• 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. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Couldn't we have gotten away any sooner? 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• To-morrow will see all my doubts in a fair way of being cleared up, sooner or later. 威尔基·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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 雪莉.
• Every time her hand searched for either of these, it would touch the book; and, sooner or later (who knows? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I would sooner go--somewhere else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• 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. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I would sooner have married her myself, he said in a low voice. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If that is the way human societies organize sovereignty, the sooner we face that fact the better. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The door was no sooner opened than all doubt on the subject was removed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The sooner the engagement's off, the better. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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