first
美 [fɜrst] 
英 [fɜː(r)st]
- adv.第一；最重要的；首要的；最优秀的
- n.第一个人（或事物）；空前的成就；前所未有的事情；最低挡
- 网络首先；第一次；第一的
词形变化
复数：firsts 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | 第一happening or coming before all other similar things or people; 1st |
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| It was the first time they had ever met. 这是他们初次见面。 |
| I didn't take the first bus. 我没有乘坐首班公共汽车。 |
| students in their first year at college 大学一年级学生 |
| your first impressions 你的初步印象 |
| She resolved to do it at the first(= earliest) opportunity. 她决定一有机会就去做。 |
| King Edward I(= pronounced ‘King Edward the First’) 英王爱德华一世 |
| the first of May/May 1st 5 月 1 日 |
| His second book is better than his first. 他的第二部书比第一部好。 |
2. | 最重要的；首要的；最优秀的the most important or best |
| Your first duty is to your family. 你首先应对家庭尽责。 |
| She won first prize in the competition. 她在竞赛中获得一等奖。 |
| an issue of the first importance 最重要的问题 |
1. | 首先；第一；最初before anyone or anything else; at the beginning |
| ‘Do you want a drink?’ ‘I'll finish my work first.’ “你想喝杯饮料吗？”“我要先完成工作。” |
| First I had to decide what to wear. 首先我得决定穿什么。 |
| Who came first in the race(= who won) ? 赛跑谁第一？ |
| It plunged nose first into the river. 它一头跳入水中。 |
| When did you first meet him? 你和他初次见面是何时？ |
3. | （列举时用）第一，首先used to introduce the first of a list of points you want to make in a speech or piece of writing |
| This method has two advantages: first it is cheaper and second it is quicker. 这个方法有两个优点：一是更便宜，二是较快。 |
4. | （强调不愿意）宁可，宁愿used to emphasize that you are determined not to do sth |
| She swore that she wouldn't apologize─she'd die first! 她发誓决不道歉，宁死也不！ |
1. | [c] 第一个人（或事物）the first person or thing mentioned; the first person or thing to do a particular thing |
| I was the first in my family to go to college. 我是我们家第一个大学生。 |
| Sheila and Jim were the first to arrive. 希拉和吉姆最先到的。 |
| I'd be the first to admit(= I will most willingly admit) I might be wrong. 我非常愿意承认我可能错了。 |
| The first I heard about the wedding(= the first time I became aware of it) was when I saw it in the local paper. 我最初知道他们结婚的消息是从当地报纸上看到的。 |
2. | [c][ususing] 空前的成就；前所未有的事情an achievement, event, etc., never done or experienced before |
| We went on a cruise, a first for both of us. 我俩都是平生第一次去海上旅游。 |
3. | [u] （汽车、自行车等的）一挡，最低挡the lowest gear on a car, bicycle, etc. that you use when you are moving slowly |
| He stuck the car in first and revved. 他挂上了一挡，开动了汽车。 |
4. | [c] ~ (in sth) （英国大学学位）最高成绩，优等成绩the highest level of university degree at British universities |
| She got a first in maths at Exeter. 她在埃克塞特大学毕业，获数学一级优等学位。 |
习惯用语
theres a first time for everything
没有发生的事情并不意味着永远不会发生；什么事情都有第一次the fact that sth has not happened before does not mean that it will never happen
at first
起初；起先at or in the beginning
| I didn't like the job much at first. 起初我并不很喜欢这个工作。 |
| At first I thought he was shy, but then I discovered he was just not interested in other people. 起先我以为他腼腆，后来才发现他就是对别人没兴趣。 |
| If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. 一次不成功就反复尝试。 |
come first
首要；第一；首先要考虑的to be considered more important than anything else
| In any decision she makes, her family always comes first. 她作任何决定都是家庭第一。 |
first and foremost
首要的是；首先more than anything else
| He does a little teaching, but first and foremost he's a writer. 他干一点教学，但首要的是写作。 |
first and last
从各方面看；完全地in every way that is important; completely
| She regarded herself, first and last, as a musician. 她认为她自己是一个不折不扣的音乐家。 |
first come, first served
先来先接待；先到先供应；按先来后到对待people will be dealt with, seen, etc. strictly in the order in which they arrive
| Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis. 票先来先买，售完为止。 |
first of all
第一；首先before doing anything else; at the beginning
| First of all, let me ask you something. 首先，让我问你一件事。 |
最重要；首先as the most important thing
| The content of any article needs, first of all, to be relevant to the reader. 任何文章的内容都首先要与读者有关。 |
first off
| First off, let's see how much it'll cost. 首先咱们看看这要花多少钱。 |
first up
第一；首先to start with; before anything else
put sb/sth first
认为…最重要；把…放在第一位to consider sb/sth to be more important than anyone/anything else
| She always puts her children first. 她总是把子女放在第一位。 |
first among equals
第一把手；首要的事物the person or thing with the highest status in a group
from the (very) first
| They were attracted to each other from the first. 他俩一见倾心。 |
from first to last
从头至尾；自始至终from beginning to end; during the whole time
| It's a fine performance that commands attention from first to last. 这是个精彩的演出，自始至终都扣人心弦。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Your first words should convey that you care about her. Show your love for her.
你第一句话要先表达，你是很关心阿嬷的，这就表示你爱她。
I only found a few of the stores interesting enough to describe and I'll share that with you in a moment, but first. . .
我发现只有很少的几间店让我有足够的兴致去描述它们，我会马上与你们分享，但首先…
" Yes, you first sit down, if it was done by Cheng Yakun, he 'd call. " Han Lengyan frowned, looked out of the window, floating in the air.
“是啊，你先坐下来，如果真的是成亚坤干的，他肯定会打电话来的。”韩冷烟皱着眉头，目光看着窗外，思绪漂浮在空气中。
Now it seems to you that the task wasn't as boring as you first thought.
现在，对你来说这个任务并没有起初认为的那么无聊。
First, the data is often provided by the rated governments themselves, and he says governments lie.
首先那些资料数据往往是那些被评比的政府自己提供的。他说，政府不说实话。
Or at least, made him re-think chopping her to pieces on first sight.
好吧，至少让他在第一次看到她时对是否要把她撕成碎片进行了三思。
Technically it was the first full year since the end of the Great Recession.
从技术上讲，这是大萧条结束后的第一个完整年度。
There is no exact date for when the first hula hoop was made, but it seems to be an ancient toy.
第一个呼拉圈是在何时被制作出来并无确切日期，但它似乎是个年代久远的玩具。
We are ready to make a very important announcement that prepares the ground for our formal first contact with you.
我们已经准备了一个非常重要的公告，这将为我们正式的接触打下基础。
First there was the button, then came the touch screen - and now we have no phone at all.
先是有按键，后来有了触摸屏——现在我们连电话都不需要了。
Only a few days before, France had also begun to feel the first numbing blows of our weapons.
几天前，法国也开始在我们的武器的威力下迅速瘫痪。
When the train came in, Michael boarded it first and without knowing it, dropped his ticket on the platform as he got into the carriage.
他们来到车站买好了车票，火车进站后，米歇尔先上了车，他们走进车厢时不小心将自己的车票掉在了月台上。
As you know, many people are judged by first impressions, so be sure to make a good one that shows you are hard working and professional.
正如你所知道的，许多人通过第一印象来判断一个人，因此，确保握手要得体，以说明你工作努力，富有专业精神。
What he had heard on the news was the Elvis had died of what was at first to be thought a heart attack.
他只是从新闻中知道Elvis的死因是在刚开始时被认为的心脏病。
Pitch your feet out, keeping your head down and beginning to prepare for your first pull.
甩出你的双脚，保持面部朝下，准备开始第一次蛙泳手划水。
In the first months of my appointment, difficulties and challenges cropped up in large number, but I wouldn't slacken my pace.
在我上任的最初，我面临过许多的困难和挑战，但我不能懈怠，我必须不断前进来克服它们。
This is the first known life form that seems to be able to swap out one of life's fundamental building blocks with another element.
这是首个已知的生命形态，其看似能替换构成出生命的基本要素。
According to family lore, the ring was given as a gift from the collector to his wife in celebration of the birth of their first baby boy.
据该家族记载，这枚指环是该藏家庆祝其长子出生而送给妻子的礼物。
For the world of the first, easy to say and looking at the world people have several sliver of your life?
为天下之先，说来容易，横看世间人，你一生有几次敢为天下先？
A few impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest. "
虽然，那些鲜活而生动的记忆来自我生命的最初时光，但是，“牢房一般的阴暗将伴随着我的余生”。
I fitted myself up for a battle, as before; though with more caution, knowing I had to do with another kind of enemy than I had at first.
我照旧进行着作战的准备；可是比过去更加小心，因为我知道所要应付的是一种和从前不同的敌人。
China was the first foreign country he visited, at age 23, and he worked his way over as a sailor.
中国是他出游的第一个外国，当时他二十三岁，以充当水手的方式实现了那次旅行。
He'll not seem to you so gentle and kind at first, perhaps, because it is not his way.
也许一开始你觉得他不怎么和气仁慈，因为他的作风不是这样。
It had been the region of their First Warpath, and it carried back the minds of both to scenes of tenderness as well as to hours of triumph.
这是他们第一次踏上征途的地方，它使他们俩想起了往日那些可歌可泣的动人场面和胜利的时刻。
He never "watch" his language with her, which at first she took as evidence of his contempt.
和她在一起他从来不“注意”他的语言，起先，她把这看成是他瞧不起她的一种迹象。
David might have shot him first, but David had never before pointed a gun at a human being, let alone killed somebody.
大卫本可能先开枪的，但他过去从未用枪对人瞄准过，更不用说杀人了。
A-Fe2O3 (haematite) was one of the first compounds to be studied by neutron diffraction.
A-Fe2O3（赤铁矿）是中子衍射最先研究的化合物之一。
Her thought, when he first broached this, was that she ought to make some demonstration of astonishment or wrath.
她在想，当他刚说出来的时候，应该有些震惊或忿怒的表示。
Just as the first ray of the rising sun shot like a golden arrow athwart this desolation we gained the further gateway of the outer wall.
当第一缕晨曦象箭似的射到这历史名城的废墟上时，我们已经走到了外城城门边。
Pug did not know why he was back in her good graces, or why he had fallen out in the first place.
帕格不知道他为什么又重新得到了她的宠爱，或者起先为什么会失掉。
It was not until July 10 that the first heavy onslaught began, and this date is usually taken as the opening of the battle.
直到7月10日才开始进行第一次猛烈的袭击，因此通常就把这一天作为空战开始的日子。
She threw at me a very naughty look, so naughty that I would not kiss her good-night at first.
她对我作出非常淘气的表情，淘气得我起先都不想吻她和道晚安了。
He wanted ever so badly to read it; he would get at it the first opportunity and find out just what Jane had said.
他迫切地希望读一下；他一有机会就要去把它拾起来，看看简究竟说了些什么。
The enemy did, within a short time, begin a series of savage local attacks against the British First Army in the north.
但不久敌人又发动了一连串向北部英军第一军团凶猛的局部攻击。
She decided first to complete the matter which had taken her downstairs.
她决定先办理那件她曾为此下楼去的事情。
He wore a pair of round silver rimmed-glasses which gave him at first glance a studious or, at least, a methodical appearance.
他戴了一副银丝边圆眼镜，乍一看去似乎有一种勤奋好学的风度，起码也给人一种循规蹈矩之感。
The first disaster was the advent of the Romans, whose entire role in the history of mathematics was that of an agent of destruction.
第一次灾殃是罗马人的来临，它们在数学史上的全部作用是一种破坏因素。
It was unlawful for a priest of the Church of England, after the death of his first wife, to take a second.
信奉英国宗教的教士，凡有断弦的不应再娶，若是再娶就是违律。
Young warrior ought to ask young girl; no make young girl speak first. Mingo girls are too shame for that.
年青的战士应当向年轻的姑娘求爱，不能让年轻的姑娘先开口，明哥姑娘也不好意思这样做的。
She was hazed when first entering her boyfriend's house by his mother.
当她第一次登她男友家门时，他的母亲就给了她一个下马威。
With Barak Obama coming into presidency, his wife Michelle Obama becomes the First Lady of the United States.
随着巴拉克·奥巴马当选总统，他的妻子米歇尔·奥巴马也成为了美国的第一夫人。
On the first Tuesday morning the choice for a moment seemed to lie between an air strike or acquiescence.
在第一个星期二的上午，一时看来，要在空袭或默认之间作出选择。
He took it out at the earliest opportunity, and the first two hedges and a ditch the horse cleared easily.
他一有机会便把它骑了出去，这马轻轻易易地越过最先的两道篱笆和一道壕沟。
The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark and thin girl.
其中第一个孩子是个子最高，肤深腰纤的女孩。
For the facsimile transmission of a book it is at present first necessary to make photocopies of the book's pages.
一本书的传真传送目前首先需要将每一页影印。
First he told me he would put in for me to raffle, and did so, some small matter coming to his lot, he presented it to me.
开头他告诉我他要替我买一张彩票，他果然买了，得到一件小玩意儿，就送给了我。
I did not know whether to go in and report or go upstairs first and clean up.
我不晓得现在进去报告好呢，还是先上楼洗刷一下好。
When the next face appeared I saw the eyes behind the thick glasses blinking as though noticing me for the first time.
当第二张脸出现的时候，我看见那双眼睛在深度近视眼镜后面眨着，好象第一次注意到我似的。
"After all, " he thought, "the poor chap will get over it; not the first time such a thing has happened in this little city! "
“反正，”他心里想，“这个家伙会对付得了的；这种事情在这个小城市里也并不是破天荒！”
Let me congratulate you on your winning first place in the 100 metre dash.
祝贺你获得百米赛跑第一名。
Angela Ortega, 52, who rented a room in her first-floor apartment to German Cabrera, said he was quiet and respectful.
安吉拉，52岁，她把自己一楼公寓的一间房间租给了吉曼*卡布来拉。她说他是个安静，有礼貌的人。
The impact of the crash had smashed Heather head-first into the wind-shield--slashing her face, knocking out teeth and shattering bones.
撞车的冲击力使她的头栽到挡风玻璃上——脸划破了，牙敲捧了，骨头也轧断了。
We are pleased to have transacted this first business with you and look forward to the further expansion of trade to our mutual benefit.
非常高兴此次与你们达成第一笔交易，盼望以后能进一步发展双方互利的贸易。
It was the first time since the Great Depression that the Fed had made a loan like this to an entity other than a bank.
自大萧条以来，这还是美联储第一次像这样借钱给一家公司而不是银行。
She felt that this moment of interview for her first job was a tremendous inch in her whole existence.
她感到她的第一份工作的面试机会在她的整个生命中是一个了不起的部分。
I have never been as ridiculously nervous as the moment I handed in my first official draft of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head. "
我从没有像现在一样的紧张兮兮，当我把我人生的第一份正式剧本呈交上去时，我感觉浑身上下在不停的冒汗。
Of course, the Bellaire High School ninth-grader's first choice would be playing tennis or hanging out with his friends.
当然啦，贝莱尔高中高一的学生在假期中首选的休閒活动仍然还是打网球或是和朋友一起閒晃。
The first time the Orc put his hands up like a megaphone and said, "My life for the Horde" , and the second time something else.
第一次兽人会伸出双手，拢成喇叭状并高呼“为部落献身”，第二次就会做其他动作。
First , if you did not read the scenario , take a peek at it first so all of this makes sense .
首先，如果您没有读过所谈的情况，请先看一下前文，不然你会不知所云。
Moseley was taken aback; he said he wanted to spend time fact-finding first.
莫斯利措手不及；他说他需要先花时间进行实地调查。
According to certain historians, the first Roman contact with silk was that of the legions of the governor of Syria, Crassus.
根据某些历史学家所说，首次与丝绸取得联系的罗马人是叙利亚执政者——克拉苏的古罗马军团内的人。
The first thing to notice is the unread count at the top of the screen, so users immediately know how much mail still needs to be read.
首先要注意屏幕顶部的未读邮件数，这样用户就会立即知道还有多少邮件需要阅读。
Already, the number of deaths seems to be stabilizing, perhaps indicating that the first wave of this influenza has peaked.
目前，死亡人数似乎趋于稳定，这可能暗示这一波流感已经达到顶峰。
"I remember meeting him for the first time and thinking how young he looked - he had such a baby face! " recalls Beckham.
“我记得第一次见到他的情景，我想他看上去好年轻啊。他真是有张娃娃脸！”贝克汉姆回忆道。
In first grade your idea of a good friend was the person who goes to the bathroom with you in school.
在一年级，你心中的好朋友就是能和你一起去上厕所的人。
He was an orphan, he had no family, and he was on his first long voyage at sea.
他是孤儿，没有家人，这是他首次出海远航。
"That's why I say that this is going to be a first step, " he said.
他说：“这就是为什么我认为这仅仅是迈出了第一步的原因。”
There is no doubt that your first love is a very powerful attachment and such fellings do not easily disappear .
毫无疑问、，你的初恋刻骨铭心，这份感情并不会轻易忘却。
First, let the children play jigsaw puzzles, can exercise capacity and practical ability to read and write.
让孩子玩拼图游戏，可锻炼读写能力及动手能力。
You say you need 1500 RMB but what about the network? How much is that for the first six months?
你说你需要1500块但是宽带怎么样了啊？前六个月要交多少钱？
Fanny went to bed with her heart as full as on the first evening of her arrival at the Park.
范妮象她来到庄园的第一个晚上那样心事重重地上床了。
Such a thrust would be aimed first at the Philippines, which to all Americans offered an attractive goal.
这样一种突击，首先将以菲律宾作为目标，因为它是一个吸引全体美国人的注意力的地方。
I made up my bed on the floor, and he took the first spell, pistol in hand and sword on knee.
我替自己铺好地铺，首先由他轮班警戒，他手里拿着手枪，膝盖上搁着宝剑。
And time seemed, nearly, to fall away from sullen, belligerent, battered faces, as though they were fleeing back to their first condition.
他们那郁郁不乐、争斗、备受打击的面孔几乎完全超脱于时间之外，犹如在逃离现实，回到“人生之初”去。
They were confirmed by little Publius himself who returned from his first term at school complaining that life was a burden to him.
小蒲柏里斯亲身的经验也证明了这一点：进学校才一个学期，回来就抱怨日子过不下去了。
"You speak as if I ought to marry the first man who came along. "
“你这口气倒象我碰上谁就该和谁结婚似的。”
For the first time in her life, she submitted to the sentiment which has so much influence on the happiness or misery of her sex.
她有生以来第一次屈服于这种对女人的幸福或痛苦有重大影响的感情。
They did not know that she was dead, at first.
最初他们并不知道她死了。
But first, let us do our duty to the great beings that have brought all this about.
不过我们首先要向促成此事的伟大诸神致敬。
The children always have first call on her time.
她的时间总是先花在孩子们身上。
