soon

英[suːn]美[suːn]

adv.很快，宁愿…也不…；

比较级：sooner;

*高级：soonest;

英语六级真题

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

How Virgin Galactic, regulators and the public respond to this most recent tragedy will deter mine whether and how soon private space travel can transcend that playground.

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

In 1966, soon after the Beatles had finished work on "Rubber Soul", Paul McCartney looked into the possibility of going to America to record their next album.

They can be solved sooner or later with human ingenuity.

iPhones and iPods will replace laptops sooner or later

It will see a rebound sooner or later

Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside.

They had titles like Young vs Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their message was blunt: health-care systems were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare.

Governments in rich countries now accept that their pension and health-care promises will soon become unaffordable, and many of them have embarked on reforms, but so far only timidly

But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein emerging anytime soon.

Mary should get rid of her pet as soon as possible.

However, soon after these fierce outbreaks, the virus died out, at least temporarily.

Jane told me that you'll be leaving at soon

His wife will leave her work soon.

Another Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later.

So she was not surprised to see a number of hands go up as soon as she finished speaking

He is soon going to have an evaluation interview with his supervisor and the personnel director to discuss the work he has done in the past year.

Some polar animals will soon become extinct.

After being dogged by technical delays for years, sir Richard Branson, virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a Spaceship Two craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

But with simultaneous interpreting, you start translating almost as soon as the other person starts speaking.

Despite the turmoil, brick and mortar won't disappear any time soon.

How Virgin Galactic, regulators and the public respond to this most recent tragedy will determine whether and how soon private space travel can transcend that playground.

I soon became aware that campaigning is useless.

I'm not sure bugs will become a popular snack anytime soon, but they're definitely food for fort.

Most early books were printed in Latin, but the market for Latin was limited, and in its pursuit of larger markets, the book trade soon produced translations into the national languages emerging at the time.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

Perhaps, if we continue to improve information-processing machines, we'll soon have helpful rational assistants.

Seeing others enjoy a smoke, or sneak a quick glance, is too tempting to resist and soon everyone is doing it.

Soon after launching EPIC'S most successful product - the Bison Bacon Cranberry Bar - Collins and Forrest found they'd exhausted their sources for Bison raised exclusively on pasture.

Soon, our current smartphone lifestyle will expand to create our own smart home lifestyle too.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university—and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

This unique ecosystem may soon be under pressure.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADV-GRADED

很快;马上;不久

If something is going to happen soon, it will happen after a short time. If something happened soon after a particular time or event, it happened a short time after it.

例句

PHR-CONJ-SUBORD

一…就…

If you say that something happens as soon as something else happens, you mean that it happens immediately after the other thing.

例句

PHR-MODAL

宁可;宁愿

If you say that you would just as soon do something or you'd just as soon do it, you mean that you would prefer to do it.

例句

英汉词典释义

adv.

不久; 即刻, 马上

早; 快

宁可; 宁愿

英英词典释义

Adverb

1. in the near future;