dictionnaire Allemand - Anglais

früher Anglais:

1. sooner

It was obvious to everyone that the marriage would sooner or later end in divorce.

The sooner, the better.

Sooner or later, she will appear.

If we hadn't lost our way, we would have been here sooner.

Sooner or later, every parent has to have a talk with their children about the birds and the bees.

If only the doctor had come a little sooner.

He sent me a letter to the effect that his poultry farm would go bankrupt sooner or later.

He and I have a near-telepathic understanding of each other. No sooner does one of us say something than the other is already responding.

No sooner had the younger brother gone into the forest than he found the river, swam across it, and there on the other side was the she-bear, fast asleep.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think — in fact they do so.

You should have come here sooner instead of putting it off out of pride for so long.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

No sooner had we finished working on one tough problem than the president sent us yet another straight from the top.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Young people adapt themselves to something sooner than old people.

Anglais mot "früher"(sooner) se produit dans des ensembles:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Othmar" (Ouida)
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Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Cossacks" (Leo Tols...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Tracy Park" (Mary Jane ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Red Romance Book" (...

2. formerly

Thailand, formerly known as Siam, is an exotic country.

She was formerly a bank clerk.

He didn't deny that he was formerly involved in the program.

The artist formerly known as Prince is still recording new songs.

The man formerly known as the "priest" blessed a group of people that was formerly known as the "congregation", but could no longer be called so due to demanding technical criteria.

Formerly, a book was worth its weight in silver, if not in gold.

Formerly people did not know that the earth is round and that it moves around the sun.

Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.

Formerly this harbor was prosperous.

Formerly, this city was beautiful.

Less students study German today than formerly.

There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Ho Chi Minh City, formerly called Saigon

She was formerly married to a good friend of mine

The building formerly housed an internet service provider.

Anglais mot "früher"(formerly) se produit dans des ensembles:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Stories About Indians" ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Stories About Indians" ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Sun Dance of the Bl...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Susan and Edward or, A ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Regimental Records ...

3. former

Former pop stars are just plain old women by the time they're 40.

former politician

Bulgaria is the only country in Europe where a former monarch has been elected prime minister.

The former Argentine currency was Austral. Its symbol was "₳".

Former Olympic fencing champion Pál Schmitt has been elected President of Hungary.

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils.

Is it a good idea to hire former hackers to work as security professionals?

If a coach is on a couch that's on a coach and the latter has a driver, then all is fine. If a coach is on a couch that's on a coach, but the driver drives the former, then the couch is crushed and the coach is dead.

Deposed in a military coup in September 2006 and having effectively been in exile, the Former premier of Thailand Thaksin has returned after about a year and a half.

The newly promoted junior manager, drunk with power, lorded it over his former co-workers.

The former president of a certain association has been arrested on suspicion of breach of trust.

Robert Hansen was arrested on suspicion of having sold off secret information to the former Soviet Union.

He wrote two books - 'The prince' and then 'The King', but I prefer the former. My former wife has found herself another man.

Bill Gates - the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing part, the latter the executive part.

Anglais mot "früher"(former) se produit dans des ensembles:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Myths and Legends of Ch...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Making of the New T...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Chats on Autographs" (A...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Principles of Political...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Pianoforte Sonata I...

4. earlier

He decided to feed his dog the rabbit that he had shot earlier that day.

Earlier, as I was walking down the sidewalk, a car drove by and splashed water on me. Look at this! My skirt and shoes are all muddy.

Tom acknowledged that what he said earlier was not true.

Japan's gold and foreign exchange reserves stood at $68.9 billion at the end of 1998, down from $77.0 billion a year earlier.

If you want to catch the 7 o'clock bus, you must leave earlier.

I told you we should've gotten here earlier. Now there aren't any places left to sit.

Earlier in his life, he ran a hotel.

all those years earlier

He said that he was tired and that is why he'd like to go home earlier.

The job-seeking season is starting earlier each year and it's the mass media that are causing that trend by moving up their job interview schedule.

An earlier sense of a word need not be its present basic sense.

It is impossible to burn a copy of Dante's Inferno because the ice of the ninth layer of hell will put out any fires kindled with earlier pages.

We’ve all heard of outdated laws that remain on the books from earlier times, many of which are good for a few laughs.

Why didn't you tell us about this earlier? We'd have been able to do something about it.

Anglais mot "früher"(earlier) se produit dans des ensembles:

Speakly German Beginner 3

5. erstwhile

My erstwhile brother i law want to see me.

the erstwhile president of the company

Anglais mot "früher"(erstwhile) se produit dans des ensembles:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Tedric" (Edward Elmer S...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Third class in Indian r...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Stewardship of the ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Nibelungenlied Tran...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "A Broader Mission for L...

6. previous

The previous tenant took excellent care of her apartment.

previous job

Around 30% increase in power seen in in-house comparisons with previous model.

Regarding Professor Scott's final criticism I have nothing more to add to what I said in my previous reply.

Yes. She got an introduction from her previous doctor and transferred to this hospital.

It is that Emmet's theory is compatible with previous theories in physics that is of most significance.

Arriving at the end of each year (that is, the last day of the lunar calendar) wasn't just a new day taking over from the previous one, but also a new year taking over from the previous one, and this was called 'first exchange'.

Would you like to buy a suit? the shopkeeper asked Dima, who brought the smells of the previous night with him as he walked through the door.

If you can't come on the day of your appointment, be sure to let us know by the previous day.

She made it in a total of 19 hours and 55 minutes, which is shorter than the previous record by 10 hours.

In short, it is because the 'plan.doc' file I attached in the previous email was infected with a virus.

Hardly had he woke up when he remembered the embarrassing incident of the previous night.

He said that his previous dentist told him that he'd remove nicotine stains if he stopped smoking.

That's the mind-set of a previous time. The current generation doesn't think that way.

Profit on computers for the previous year was nearly ten percent higher than the current year.