| 词汇 | already |
| 释义 | already adverb uk /ɔːlˈred.i/ us /ɑːlˈred.i/ A2 before the present time: 已经，早已 I asked him to come to the exhibition but he'd already seen it.我请他去看展览，可他早就看过了。 The concert had already begun by the time we arrived.我们到时，音乐会已经开始了。 I've already told him.我已经告诉他了。 As I have already mentioned, I doubt that we will be able to raise all the money we need.正如我早就说过的，我怀疑我们是否能够筹集到足够的资金。 B1 earlier than the time expected: 比预期早 Are you buying Christmas cards already? It's only September!你现在就买圣诞卡？这才9月啊！ I've only eaten one course and I'm already full.我才吃了一道菜，就已经吃饱了。 He was disappointed to find they'd already gone. I've been waiting an hour already.我已经等了一个小时了。 I knew a lot about the subject already, but her talk was interesting nevertheless.关于这个话题我已经知之甚多，但她的报告听起来还是很有趣。 The food is already on the table. I think we've already had the best of the hot weather this summer.我想我们已经度过了今年夏天最舒服的日子。 Before, after and already afore afterwards ante as it isidiom before beforehand heel in advanceidiom in advance of something/someoneidiom in the wake of somethingidiom next posterior previous prior priorly prologue quondam the next but oneidiom upstream wake GrammarAlready Already is an adverb. … Already: meaning We use already to emphasise that something was completed before something else happened. It is often used with the present perfect or past perfect: … Already: position We usually put already in the normal mid position for adverbs (between the subject and the main verb, or after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after be as a main verb): … Already: typical errors We don’t use the past simple with already for something which was completed before something else happened. Instead, we use the past perfect. … Already, still or yet? We use already to refer to something which has happened or may have happened before the moment of speaking. Already can sometimes suggest surprise on the part of the speaker, that something is unexpected: … Already or yet? We use already to refer to something which has happened or may have happened before the moment of speaking. Already can sometimes suggest surprise on the part of the speaker, that something is unexpected: … Already, yet or still? We use still not yet or already to refer to the continuation of a situation: … Negatives with already, still, yet Negatives with yet mean that something has not happened up to now: … Idiom... already! ... already!idiomhumorousinformal mainly US used to show that you are losing patience and want someone to stop doing something or to do something more quickly: 拜托！别…...了！（失去耐心而不想对方继续） Enough already! I heard you the first time!别说了！我第一次就听到你说的话了。 Just ask him already!快去问他吧！ Make a decision already! Expressions telling people to hurry up c'mon come come along come on gee gee someone up jump jump to itidiom look look lively/sharp!idiom make make it quick/fastidiom make it snappyidiom move it!idiom quick skate snap time is of the essenceidiom weave wriggle already | American Dictionaryalready adverb[ not gradable ] us/ɔlˈred·i/ earlier than the time expected, in a short time, or before the present time: Are you planning a summer trip already? It’s only September! I’ve already seen that movie. Already can also mean now: It’s bad enough already – don’t make it any worse. Examples of alreadyalready The law already takes into account harms understood in this way. I have already described the way in which an attempt to ground internal legal facts in conceptual truth faces this challenge. We have already noted the role of post office employees in helping to maximize successful applications for pensions. Many departments felt that they are already under-established for the service they are currently expected to deliver. Additionally, he is already late for another appointment in a different hospital. Also, both of these rules are instances of more general rules already considered. The stack already contains a return address where f should send its result. The present work has already been put to such use. Twenty-six per cent of the women had already used the pill and a further 19% were considering its use in the future. Adding existential types to an existing functional language that already features type classes requires only a minor syntactic extension. The reader may observe that polymorphism is already being exploited in this paper all along. We have already discussed the representation of data values, as a code pointer together with zero or more contents fields. They were probably not representative of all potential network members but of those who already had some research interest. There appears to be a mutual intolerance of each other's professional groups, further exacerbating an already unsatisfactory situation in our study group. If people are already spontaneously altruistic, how can altruism be a moral ideal? See all examples of already These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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