最早

• The painting provides us with one of the earliest examples of the use of perspective .
  那幅画给我们提供了采用透视画法的最早的范例。
• Newspapers and magazines increased and the first modern publishing houses sprang up .
  报纸和杂志增加了，最早一批现代的出版社也出现了。
• Zhou, who had first put that idea forward, hid his boredom behind an indulgent smile .
  最早提出这个概念的周以宽容的微笑掩盖了他的厌烦。
• The first record of a sustained inquiry into the problem dates from the fifth century b.c .
  对这个问题持续研究的最早的记录可追溯到公元前五世纪。
• Human fossils unearthed there are helping to reconstruct the earliest stages of human existence .
  出土的人类化石有助于复原人类生活的最早期阶段。
• The original recited version of the iliad was older than that of the odyssey .
  最早吟诵的《伊利亚特》的本子比最早吟诵的《奥德赛》的本子更为古老。
• The associative current gathered strength during the first half-century of national independence .
  在国家独立后最早的五十年中，结社的潮流日见有力。
• The earliest people were roving hunters and gatherers who made primitive stone tools .
  最早的居民是流动的狩猎者和聚居者，他们制作了一些原始的石器。
• A stake used for this purpose was the earliest type of sundial and was called a gnomon .
  这种特定的标杆就是最早的一种日晷仪，人们称之为日晷仪标杆。
• The markings and fossils in the rocks, and the rocks themselves, are the first historical documents .
  岩石中的痕迹和化石以及岩石本身是最早的历史证件。