(adv.) prior to a specified or implied time; 'she has already graduated'.
手打:威尔
双语例句
It was already dark when we reached it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
You have already done me good, and you and I are now, I hope, sworn friends. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
If I must disgrace myself by such a bargain with any man, I prefer that it be one I already despise. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
Hence, provision was made for carrying a large stock of oil, and for giving a certain period of rest to that already used. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
A large force of railroad men have already been sent to Beaufort, and other mechanics will go to Fort Fisher in a day or two. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
I have that already, she answered mischievously. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
We had already managed to get pretty high vacua, and we thought, maybe, the filament would be stable. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
And then he heard Lydgate's account of the troubles which Rosamond had already depicted to him in her way. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Must you go home, already? 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
He was already the scientific lion of England, but withal a very modest and unassuming lion. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The parts being thus distributed to the leaders, they commenced the first assault, of which the reader has already heard the issue. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
In order to answer this question, let us recollect what we have already established concerning the origin of government and political society. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
I have already refused him. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Phaidor-- she stumbled a little here, and then in a very low voice, Phaidor already is yours. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
Tiglath Pileser III and Sargon II, names already familiar in this story, profess to have made them pay tribute. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
We are already friends, I hope. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
I glanced at my companion, and finding that he had already risen and was ready to depart, thanked them for what they had told me, and took my leave. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Since the supply is small, induce to begin this study youths of about eig hteen years of age who are already acquainted with the sciences required in a general education. 李贝.西洋科学史.
You have, no doubt, already formed your conclusions from the newspapers, he said. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The latter was given, as already stated, all troops in North and South Carolina. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
Although we appeared at the stipulated place a quarter of an hour before the time, we found Mr. Micawber already there. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Whenever you please, was his answer; as though he had already recorded his decision against me and made his mind up not to look at it. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
There's a vicious point hit already, she said. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
We have already shown how the hold of the Catholic church upon the consciences of men was weakening at this time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.