More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

But I can't go back to what it was like in the early days, just like you can't go back to what it was like to be four or three.

但再早之前的事情就记不得了，就像你想不起你三四岁时候的事情一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In the early days when there are four or five formulas, you could memorize all of them and you can try each one of them until something works, but after a couple of weeks you will have a hundred formulas and you cannot memorize all of them.

刚开始我们只会涉及到四,五个公式,你可以全部记下来,你可以一个一个试,直到解出答案,但过了几个星期,你就已经学了一百多个公式了,你没法全部记下来

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

She was twenty-four when she wrote "The Secret of the Old Clock" and other early Nancy Drew books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

So in other words, if you terminate these lines early, if you terminate the four loop early, if you terminate an if condition early with that semicolon, the code may very well work; and this is a common source -- of frustration and conundrum because you don't -- because your code looks right and yet it's misbehaving, but that semicolon means stop looking for subsequent lines of related code.

换句话说，如果你用分号过早的终止了这些代码行，如果你过早地终止了那个for循环，如果如此,一个if条件，代码可能可以运行，这就是,挫折和问题产生的源头，因为你没有-,因为你的代码看起来是正确的，但是运行是错误的，那个分号的意思是,停止寻找后面相关的代码。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Planting beans every two to four weeks until early August will provide a continuous harvest.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

General Robert E.Lee surrendered in early April, bringing an end to four years of fighting.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

The four others show examples of early explorations of the country.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The United Nations has confirmed that four of its workers were abducted early Monday in Waajid, in south-central Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16