早期的，初期的，早先的
adv.
1.在早期，在初期
2.提早，提前
3.先前，早些时候，…之前 词形变化
- 形容词比较级 earlier，earliest
- 名称 earliness
- expected in the near future
- in good time
- of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
- very young
- at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
- during an early stage
- before the usual time or the time expected
- belonging to the distant past
- being or occurring at an early stage of development