sooner
adv. 更快地,更早地
Sooner is the comparative of soon.
You say the sooner the better when you think something should be done as soon as possible.
Detective Holt said: 'The kidnapper is a man we must catch and the sooner the better'.
霍爾特偵探說:“綁架者是一名男子,我們必須抓住他,越快越好。”
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.
Sooner or later she would be caught by the police.
她遲早會被警方逮住的。
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.
No sooner had he arrived in Rome than he was kidnapped.
他剛到羅馬就遭到了綁架。
If you say that you would sooner do something or you'd sooner do it, you mean that you would prefer to do it.
Ford vowed that he would sooner burn his factory to the ground than build a single vehicle for war purposes...
福特鄭重宣告他寧可把自己的工廠付之一炬,也不願意生產一輛用於戰爭的車輛。
I'd sooner not talk about it...
我寧可不去談論它。
1. comparatives of `soon' or `early';
2. more readily or willingly;
I imagine they'll be tearing the building down sooner or later.
我猜他們早晚會拆除這座樓的。
No sooner had he arrived in Rome than he was kidnapped.
他剛到羅馬就遭到了綁架。
Sooner or later she would be caught by the police.
她遲早會被警方逮住的。
Mark, you'd better get cracking, the sooner the better.
馬克,你最好儘快開始,越快越好。
Sooner or later, I'm going to have to face the music.
遲早我得自己承擔後果。