First
[fɜːst] or [fɝst]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
編輯:汤姆--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.
(a.) Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others.
(a.) Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
(adv.) Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles.
(n.) The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect.
整理:莱克格斯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Foremost, leading.[2]. Chief, highest, principal, capital.[3]. Earliest.[4]. Primary.[5]. Primitive, primeval, pristine.
ad. In the first place, at the outset, in the beginning, first and foremost, before any thing else.
贝妮塔整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Leading, primary, pristine, original, foremost, primitive, principal, primeval,highest, chief, earliest, {[onmost]?}
ANT:Subsequent, secondary, subordinate, subservient, lowest, unimportant, last,hindmost
手打:奥拉夫
解釋/意思:
adj. foremost: preceding all others in place time or degree: most eminent: chief.—adv. before anything else in time space rank &c.—adjs. First′-begot′ten begotten or born first: eldest; First′-born born first.—n. the first in the order of birth: the eldest child.—adj. First′-class of the first class rank or quality.—ns. First′-day Sunday; First′-floor (see Floor); First′-foot (Scot.) the first person to enter a house after the beginning of the new year; First′-fruit First′-fruits the fruits first gathered in a season: the first profits or effects of anything bishoprics benefices &c.—adj. First′-hand obtained without the intervention of a second party.—n. First′ling the first produce or offspring esp. of animals.—adv. First′ly in the first place.—adjs. First′-rate of the first or highest rate or excellence: pre-eminent in quality size or estimation; First′-wa′ter the first or highest quality purest lustre—of diamonds and pearls.
弗雷迪手打
例句/造句/用法:
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- 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? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The first known application of the kind was made by Mr. Murdoch, an engineer in the employment of Messrs. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Dejah Thoris in the clutches of the First Born! 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- This woman's first husband is in that cottage. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- And thus young Lord Greystoke took the first step toward the goal which he had set--the finding of other white men like himself. 愛德格·賴斯·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! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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