First

(noun.) an honours degree of the highest class.

(noun.) the first element in a countable series; 'the first of the month'.

(noun.) the first or highest in an ordering or series; 'He wanted to be the first'.

(adj.) ranking above all others; 'was first in her class'; 'the foremost figure among marine artists'; 'the top graduate' .

(adj.) preceding all others in time or space or degree; 'the first house on the right'; 'the first day of spring'; 'his first political race'; 'her first baby'; 'the first time'; 'the first meetings of the new party'; 'the first phase of his training' .

(adj.) highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections; 'first soprano'; 'the first violin section'; 'played first horn' .

(adj.) indicating the beginning unit in a series .

(adv.) before anything else; 'first we must consider the garter snake'.

(adv.) the initial time; 'when Felix first saw a garter snake'.

(adv.) before another in time, space, or importance; 'I was here first'; 'let's do this job first'.

编辑:汤姆

• The paper was first dipped into a solution of common salt, and then wiped dry, to diffuse the salt uniformly through the substance of the paper. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I am also to take it as a matter of fact that the proposal to withdraw from the engagement came, in the first instance, from YOU? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His first United States patent, No. 174,465, was granted March 7, 1876, and his second January 30, 1877, No. 186,787. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The girl refused; and for the first time, and to the astonishment of the majestic mistress of the school. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The first known application of the kind was made by Mr. Murdoch, an engineer in the employment of Messrs. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The first half-hour was lost, for Fanny and Lady Bertram were together, and unless she had Fanny to herself she could hope for nothing. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Dejah Thoris in the clutches of the First Born! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This woman's first husband is in that cottage. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• And thus young Lord Greystoke took the first step toward the goal which he had set--the finding of other white men like himself. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Surely, I would say, all men do not wear those shocking nightcaps; else all women's illusions had been destroyed on the first night of their marriage! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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