1 early

2 morning

3 Good morning!

4 long ago

5 prematurely

1 early morning

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 Good morning!

1 at dawn

2 at first light

3 first thing in the morning

1 early in the morning

2 at dawn

1 to leave early and return late (idiom)

1 The sooner you set to work, the sooner you'll reap the rewards. (idiom)

1 if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom)

2 to regret vainly one's past behavior

1 to die an untimely death (idiom)

2 to be cut off in one's prime

1 lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)

2 fig. it's not something you can avoid forever