Like enough, it was too late or too early.

可能是太迟了，也可能是太早了。

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The ice forms early and stays late in the north.

北方冰结得早，融化得晚。

《新英汉大辞典》

Early or late he's always the same fellow.

不管是早是晚，他总是那个样子。

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How active you are early in life may affect how able-minded you are late in life.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

It is, in fact, a very deliberate and self-conscious repudiation of that late romantic aesthetic that Yeats's early book, and even the cover of that early book, represents.

实际上，这是一种非常从容不迫有意识的,对早期叶芝的书里体现出的后浪漫审美的抛弃，甚至连早期那本书的封面，都体现出了这种倾向。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Phase One, the million and a half years ago, in the early--in the late--Miocene and early Pleistocene phases, there was shift where people were less likely to be just going out and gathering foods from every place they could find it.

第一阶段,一百五十万年前,在整个中新世以及更新世的早期,情况开始转变,人们不光靠,出门四处搜集食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

With her 60-hour workweeks, plus early-morning and late-night meetings and a 1.5-hour commute each way, she seldom had time with her two small children.

WSJ: Stress at Work: Why Women Feel It More Than Men

From 1999 to 2004, he won outright the largest sprint distance triathlon in Kansas City, a testament not only to his athletic abilities but also to hours and hours of early- and late-hour training.

WSJ: Endurance Sports: Studies on Older Endurance Athletes Suggest the Fittest Reap Few Health Benefits

It is perched uneasily between the Old World values it reveres--invest early, stay late--and the New World frenzy of venture capital that the firm would once have abhorred.

FORBES: Personality Change