Dad leaves early with a friend.

爸爸和一个朋友早早地离开了。

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Frost turns the leaves early.

霜冻使树叶很早就变色了。

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I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.

我可以睡在走廊的摇椅上，明天一大早就去赶大巴。

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Virgil alludes to just this passage in Homer when he describes the entrance of a whole crowd of people in to the underworld as "the falling of leaves in the early frost of autumn."

维吉尔只是在荷马中影射了这点,他描述了通往人群拥挤的地狱的入口,如同“在深秋严寒中无情飘落的叶子“

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In the latter, he leaves early and catches up with notes online.

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