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untimely adj.不合时宜的；比正常情况早的adv.不合时宜地；过早地 (1) 他那不合时宜的干涉让我生气。(2) 意外事故使聚会匆匆结束了。(3) 她25岁时英年早逝使她的父母非常伤心。(4) 他是个地道的文人，不逢时地生在一个不需要学问的世界里。 When something is timely, it happens at the right time. When something is untimely, it means the opposite: it happened at an unfortunate or unexpected time. Usually, this means it happened much too early. The most common use of this term is probably in discussing someone’s untimely death, meaning they died young. Other disasters that happen to young people might be described as untimely as well.

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英 [ʌn'taɪmli] 美 [ʌn'taɪmli] (1) His untimely intervention annoyed me.(2) The accident put an untimely end to the party.(3) Her untimely death at 25 made her parents heartbroken.(4) He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters. Something untimely has occurred prematurely, and it's usually not good news. If you hear about someone's untimely death, it must mean it was an unexpected death. 1[ADJ 形容词]过早的；提早的；未到期的 If you describe an event as untimely, you mean that it happened earlier than it should, or sooner than you expected.   [usu ADJ n]His mother's untimely death had a catastrophic effect on him...他母亲的早逝给了他沉重的打击。Her untimely return could spoil Miss Melville's entire programme for the evening.她提前回来可能会破坏掉梅尔维尔小姐今晚的整个计划。2[ADJ 形容词]不适时的；不合时宜的 You can describe something as untimely if it happens at an unsuitable time. ...an untimely visit from the milkman...送牛奶的来得不是时候I am sure your readers would have seen the article as at best untimely.即使往最好里说，我相信你的读者也会觉得这篇文章发表得不是时候。

英语单词	untimely
英美音标	英 [ʌn'taɪmli] 美 [ʌn'taɪmli]
中文释义	adj.不合时宜的；比正常情况早的 adv.不合时宜地；过早地
英语例句	(1) His untimely intervention annoyed me. (2) The accident put an untimely end to the party. (3) Her untimely death at 25 made her parents heartbroken. (4) He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters.
中文例句	(1) 他那不合时宜的干涉让我生气。 (2) 意外事故使聚会匆匆结束了。 (3) 她25岁时英年早逝使她的父母非常伤心。 (4) 他是个地道的文人，不逢时地生在一个不需要学问的世界里。
vocabulary简明	Something untimely has occurred prematurely, and it's usually not good news. If you hear about someone's untimely death, it must mean it was an unexpected death.
vocabulary扩展	When something is timely, it happens at the right time. When something is untimely, it means the opposite: it happened at an unfortunate or unexpected time. Usually, this means it happened much too early. The most common use of this term is probably in discussing someone’s untimely death, meaning they died young. Other disasters that happen to young people might be described as untimely as well.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ 形容词]过早的；提早的；未到期的 If you describe an event as untimely, you mean that it happened earlier than it should, or sooner than you expected. [usu ADJ n] His mother's untimely death had a catastrophic effect on him... 他母亲的早逝给了他沉重的打击。 Her untimely return could spoil Miss Melville's entire programme for the evening. 她提前回来可能会破坏掉梅尔维尔小姐今晚的整个计划。 2 [ADJ 形容词]不适时的；不合时宜的 You can describe something as untimely if it happens at an unsuitable time. ...an untimely visit from the milkman... 送牛奶的来得不是时候 I am sure your readers would have seen the article as at best untimely. 即使往最好里说，我相信你的读者也会觉得这篇文章发表得不是时候。

Untimely Time Happened Death Unexpected Means Adj 形容词