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日本語WordNet
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副詞
1以前に、曩に、甞て、先に、前に
earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before"; "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier"
2より早く
comparatives of `soon' or `early'; "Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"
3元元、初めに、固より、最初に、元より
before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
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1より早く、以前に。時間的に前の時点を指す副詞・形容詞。
At or before a previous time; sooner than expected or mentioned.
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Had the council received the petition earlier, they could have prevented the controversial legislation completely.
もし評議会が請願書をもっと早く受け取っていたら、彼らは論争の的となった法律を完全に防ぐことができたでしょう。
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Pronunciation data from ipa-dict (MIT License) based on cmudict-ipa by @lingz