1. Earlier, we were infants and young children, and consequently more vulnerable;
    再早一些，我们是幼儿和小孩子，身体较脆弱；

2. Earlier this month, Alberto Torres's wife, who had just been laid off from her job, had to have a breast removed due to cancer and now faces a year of radiation treatments.
    这个月初，阿尔伯图·多里斯刚刚失业的妻子，由于患癌症而不得不将一侧乳房切除，而今又面临一年的放射性治疗。

3. We resolve to get up earlier each morning, eat less,
    我们决心每天早晨起得早些；吃得少些；

4. We can't really call a friend to say we got a parcel from our sister, or it's getting dark earlier now, or we don't trust that new Supreme Court justice.
    我们不会真打电话给一位朋友，告诉他我们收到了姐姐的一个包裹，或者说现在天黑得比较早，或者说我们不信任最高法院新来的法官。

5. This result merely confirms earlier American and British studies:
    这个结果只不过证实了美国和英国早些时候的研究结论：

6. The self-discipline required to drag myself out of bed eleven minutes earlier than usual was considerable.
    这就要求我比平时早11分钟把自己从床上拽起来，这种自我约束是很艰苦的。

7. Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.
    两个主要种植者，朱塞皮.莫尔道瓦和里卡多.布拉班特告诉我，他们一直期待着今年获得一个大丰收，收割工作比往年开始要早些。

8. Today the American is one of the few foremost heart-transplant surgeons in the world, having overcome many of the earlier problems, like rejection.
    现在，他攻克了许多像异体排斥这类的早期的难题，是世界上少数几个做心脏移植手术的先驱者之一。

9. The answer, like that of two centuries earlier, was no, since again volunteer drinkers came to no harm.
    答案如同两个世纪前一样是否定的，因为它们对自愿饮用者还是没有任何损害。

10. The struggle to succeed in one of the world's most competitive societies is starting earlier and earlier, and is most evident in the growing popularity of special schools that train students during evenings and weekends to pass the examinations requi
    日本是当今世界竞争最为激烈的社会之一，在这里，成功之搏开始得越来越早，最明显的证据是一些特殊学校的生源剧增。这些学校在晚上和周末上课，训练学生通过进入私立中学和大学的入学考试。