They issued a statement correcting the one they had made earlier.

　　他們發(fā)表了一份聲明，更正早先聲明中的錯(cuò)誤。

　　I lost my job earlier this year.

　　今年早些時(shí)候，我失業(yè)了。

　　The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.

　　這個(gè)想法在他早期的小說(shuō)中已初見(jiàn)端倪。

　　I have nothing to add to my earlier statement.

　　我對(duì)我早先說(shuō)的話(huà)沒(méi)有什么補(bǔ)充的。

　　These results conflict with earlier findings.

　　這些結(jié)果與早期的發(fā)現(xiàn)相矛盾。