音标:[ɜːst] ;
erst
['ə:st]
adv.
[古语]
起先,起初,最初,原先
很久以前,从前,往昔
不久前
在此以前
adj.
[废语]首先的,最初的,开始的;以前的,原先的

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'splodey
Abyyskaya Nizmennost'
acid-labile
Active contour
all-day sucker
anaesthaesias
anticyclonic winds
auditing from trail balance
baby capsules
borrowing potential
brom-
C. S. D.
castor meal
cheer ... up
circadian desynchronization
clean-up fund
cob money
common use terminal equipment (cute)
completest
connecting bridge
cosynes
counterbored hole
crosswind stability test
cymbidium gyokuchin makino
depnes
duty-free zone
encalypta giraldii c. mull.
engaged upon
error of item
evaporating pressure
export advanced system
express sorrow for
fair body line
fixated consumption behavior
fm/pm
free rotor gyro-stabilized inertial reference platform
fried shrimp ball
frog-eyed
fur fiber
gabb
Galanta
george is
get sb.'s number
glovemakers
Graphics Standards
Grinds my gear
hommoss
Ibba
ifscc
image retention time
iridochoroidal
jengkol
job involvement
liquid cubic
made their market of
mcbee
meat-spoilage organism
megawatt hour (mwh)
miles of travel
murried
natrium acetate
naturistically
nematocerous
new issue department
Olympic View
pee-ed
phacelias
playin
plectopheras
potws
pre-Linnean
QA analyst
Ramalina denticulata
roller friction wheel
san feliu de guixols
Sarcoptidae
serpent-
setting basin
shock acceleration acceleration
snotrag
soft surface steel hammer
soulangeana
stenostomatous
survey and tender clause
T.B.P.
thread-stitching
timetable poster
to-reose
tracheopathia osteoplastica
tricolor vidicon
two-speed hysteresis synchronous motor
two-way beam
unrustable
vasoparesis
vector root
venae basivertebrales
what for
Wolowaru
Xiyu Formation
yminted