already

A2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #277 ★★★★★

adv. 已经, 早已

发音

US /ɑlˈɹɛdi/
UK /ɔːlˈɹɛdi/
IN /ˈɔlrɛɖi/
IN /əlˈrɛɖi/

别名

alr alrdy alreadie alretty oreddy d

教材释义与例句

副词

已经，早已；先前

before now, or before a particular time

The design of the new house is similar to those that have already been built.

新房的设计与那些已建好的房子相似。

The performance had already started when we arrived.

我们到达时表演已经开始了。

释义与例句

adv. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

    已经

    已

    都

    早已

    捌曾

    I was surprised that she hadn’t already told me the news.

    Much of what he said I knew already.

    I still haven't seen that movie. I hope you haven't already seen it either.

  2. 2.

    So soon.

    Are you quitting already?

  3. 3.

    An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.

    加拿大 美国

    I wish they'd finish already, so we can get going.

    Enough already!

    Be quiet already!

  4. 4.

    Indicates the completion of an action (whether past or hypothetical), or more generally, perfective aspect.

    新加坡

    You frame the picture for me already anot?

  5. 5.

    Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect.

    新加坡

    I don’t think he can take it already.

    Your ice cream is melting already.

    Overcook already, need to redo.

    Your grandmother angry already.

相关短语

that train has already left the station that ship has already sailed that ship has sailed 时不再来 that train has left the station always already enough already

词源

From Middle English alredy (“fully; already”), equivalent to al- (“all, completely”) + ready. Cognate with West Frisian alreeds (“already”), Dutch alreeds (“already”), Afrikaans alreeds (“already”), Middle Low German alreide, alreids ("already"; whence modern German Low German alreeds (“already”)), Danish allerede (“already”), Swedish allaredan (“already”), Norwegian Nynorsk allereie (“already”). More at all, ready. The use as an intensifier in American English is a semantic loan from Yiddish שוין (shoyn), attested from 1903. In Singapore English, the use of already as a marker of action completion and change of state is analogous to Hokkien 了 (liáu), Teochew 了 (liao²) and Mandarin 了 (le). Compare Malay (su)dah and Cantonese 咗 (zo²), 喇 (laa³).

来源：wiktionary