sooner是什么意思？

sooner

英['su:nə] 美['sunə]

• adv. 更快地，更早地；

例句

• I would have been here sooner, but the rain kept me back. 我被雨所阻, 否则早已经到了。
• She’d sooner share a house with other students than live at home with her parents. 她宁可和其他学生合住，也不愿跟父母住在家里。
• We urged them to sort out the problem sooner rather than later. 我们敦促他们及早解决那个问题。
• The police will find him sooner or later. 警方早晚会找到他的。
• ‘When shall I tell him?’ ‘The sooner the better.’ “我什么时候告诉他？”“越快越好。”
• No sooner had she got in the bath than the front door bell rang. 她刚进浴室，前门的门铃就响了。
• When he said he wanted to go to the zoo on his birthday it was no sooner said than done. 他一说他生日那天想去动物园，立刻就照做了。
• If you drive like that, sooner or later you'll have an accident. 你如果那样开车, 迟早会出事的。
• He was implicated in a murder, and sooner or later they would pick him up. 他和一宗凶杀案有牵连, 迟早他们会逮捕他的。
• You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition;sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost. 你不该把那辆不安全的车卖掉,你的不端行为迟早会得到报应。

英语四级真题

The greater the difference, the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old.
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英语六级真题

iPhones and iPods will replace laptops sooner or later
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
It will see a rebound sooner or later
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Another Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later.
出自-2013年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• （soon 的比较级）
  Sooner is the comparative of soon.
• PHRASE
  越快越好;愈早愈好
  You say the sooner the better when you think something should be done as soon as possible.
  例句
  Detective Holt said: 'The kidnapper is a man we must catch and the sooner the better'. 霍尔特侦探说：“绑架者是一名男子，我们必须抓住他，越快越好。”
• PHRASE
  迟早
  If you say that something will happen sooner or later, you mean that it will happen at some time in the future, even though it might take a long time.
  例句
  Sooner or later she would be caught by the police. 她迟早会被警方逮住的。
• PHR-CONJ-SUBORD
  刚…就…
  If you say that no sooner has one thing happened than another thing happens, you mean that the second thing happens immediately after the first thing.
  例句
  No sooner had he arrived in Rome than he was kidnapped. 他刚到罗马就遭到了绑架。
• PHR-MODAL
  宁可;宁愿
  If you say that you would sooner do something or you'd sooner do it, you mean that you would prefer to do it.
  例句
  Ford vowed that he would sooner burn his factory to the ground than build a single vehicle for war purposes... 福特郑重声明他宁可把自己的工厂付之一炬，也不愿意生产一辆用于战争的车辆。 I'd sooner not talk about it... 我宁可不去谈论它。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  (要求)一说就办；说了就立即做
  When he said he wanted to go to the zoo on his birthday it was no sooner said than done. 他一说他生日那天想去动物园，立刻就照做了。
  一…就…；刚…就…
  No sooner had she got in the bath than the front door bell rang. 她刚进浴室，前门的门铃就响了。
  尽早；越早越好
  ‘When shall I tell him?’ ‘The sooner the better.’ “我什么时候告诉他？”“越快越好。”
  迟早；早晚有一天
  The police will find him sooner or later. 警方早晚会找到他的。
  赶早不赶晚；及早
  We urged them to sort out the problem sooner rather than later. 我们敦促他们及早解决那个问题。
  宁愿做某事(而不愿做另一件事)
  She’d sooner share a house with other students than live at home with her parents. 她宁可和其他学生合住，也不愿跟父母住在家里。

英英词典释义

• Adverb
  1. comparatives of `soon' or `early';
  "Come a little sooner, if you can""came earlier than I expected"
  2. more readily or willingly;
  "clean it well, preferably with warm water""I'd rather be in Philadelphia""I'd sooner die than give up"