first
adv. 首先, 第一, 优先 a. 第一的 num. 第一 n. 开始, 第一
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教材释义与例句
第一的；基本的；最早的
coming before all the other things or people in a series
第一；首先；优先；宁愿
before doing anything else, or before anything else happens
释义与例句
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1.
The person or thing in the first position.
不可数 可数He was the first to complete the course.
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The first gear of an engine.
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Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
可数 不可数This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.
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First base.
可数 体育 游戏 不可数There was a close play at first.
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A first-class honours degree.
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A first-edition copy of some publication.
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A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
可数 不可数one forty-first of the estate
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Time; time granted; respite.
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To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.
罕用 及物
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1.
Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
Hancock was first to arrive.
The first day of September 2013 was a Sunday.
I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.
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Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
the first violinist
1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
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Of or belonging to a first family.
First Cat; First Daughter; First Dog; First Son
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Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
第一
最初
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Before anything else; firstly.
先
第一
首先
最先
Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.
I plunged nose first into the water.
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For the first time.
I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.
词汇关系
同义词 10
上位词 10
下位词 8
整体词 5
同义词 4
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词源
From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“first, foremost”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *furai, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before”), from *per- (“before; first”), equivalent to fore + -est. Cognates Cognate with Scots first (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), vorst (“prince”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Limburgish Vürsch (“prince”), Luxembourgish viischt (“anterior; forward”), Vilamovian fiyśt, fjəšt, fjyśt, fjyšt (“prince”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål først (“first”), Faroese and Icelandic fyrstur (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst, først (“first”), Swedish först (“first”); also Latin prīnceps (“first, foremost; chief”), Greek παρ’ (par’), παρά (pará, “despite; less”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀫 (pa-ro, “from”), Albanian parë (“first; chief, main”), Latgalian pyrmais (“first”), Latvian pirmais (“first; foremost”), Lithuanian pirmas (“first; primary”), Bulgarian пъ́рви (pǎ́rvi), пръ́в (prǎ́v, “first”), Czech and Slovak prvý (“first”), Macedonian прв (prv), први (prvi, “first”), Polish piersy, pierwszy, pirszy (“first”), Russian пе́рвый (pérvyj, “first”), Serbo-Croatian пр̑вӣ, pȓvī (“first”), Slovene prvi (“first”), Armenian հարավ (harav, “south”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (paᵘruua, “before, first”), Tocharian A pärwat (“first”), Tocharian B parwe (“first”), Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva, “before”).
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