【first音标】 英[fɜ:st] 美[fɜ:rst]
【单词释义】 first是什么意思：
n.第一，最初；头等；一号，；[乐]高音部
adv.最早，最初；首次；宁愿；优先
adj.第一流的；最初的，最早的；基本的，概要的；高音的
num.第一
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] firsts
【first形近词/近似词】
worst adj.最坏的；最糟的；最差的；最严重的； adv.最坏地，最糟地；最差；最严重
thirst n.[U,C]（口）渴；渴望 vi.渴望；口渴
【常用短语】
at first 起先，首先；最初
at first sight 乍一看；初看之下
first of all adv. 首先
for the first time 首次；第一次
in the first place 首先；起初
【单词例句】
◇ The fat blind person touched the elephant’s ivory first. He said: “ Oh, I see! The elephant is big, thick and smooth, just like the carrots.”
胖盲人先摸到了大象的牙齿。他就说：“我知道了，大象就像一个又大、又粗、又光滑的大萝卜。”
---- Touching an Elephant
◇ Previously, only the male peacock's habitat in the mountains every time, always a good one can first choose a place to hide the tail, and then again placed in other parts of the body.
早先，这只雄孔雀每逢在山里栖息的时候，总是要首先选择好一个能掩藏尾羽的地方，然后再来安置身体的其他部位。
---- The Peacock
◇ The king finally came back home from the battlefield, and the first thing he wanted to do was to see his wife and their child.
国王终于从战场归来了，他的第一个愿望就是看看他的妻子和儿子。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ Because each one of them wanted to be first one to dip out the water, the jug fell into the well.
每一个都争先恐后地要第一个汲水，你争我夺之中，他们把大水罐给掉到井里去了。
---- The Seven Ravens
◇ The little kids cried out, "First show us your paw so we may know that you are our dear little mother."
小山羊们叫道：“你先把脚给我们看看，好让我们知道你是不是我们的妈妈。”
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ The first oil well was drilled by E. L. Drake, a retired railroad conductor. In 1859 he began drilling in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
整个的这项冒险事业看起来是如此不现实和愚蠢以致旁观者称之为"鸭子的蠢行"。
---- Oil Refining
◇ The first dish was roasted chicken, immediately, the old man took the drumstick for the old lady. “Take this, it’s your favorite.”
第一道菜是烤鸡。立刻地，老夫人的丈夫夹了一个鸡腿给她说道：“尝尝这个，我知道你最喜欢吃鸡腿了。”
---- Life Together
◇ The two of them silhouetted against the window light at the end of the long hall. My father leaning over my mother's,pressed forehead to forehead. The word“Surgery”on the doors behind them forming a caption for the picture they made. Hands clasped together as if believing they held each other's hearts. As longingly as the first time they had reached for each other,as desperately as two lovers being forced apart.
二人的身影好像一幅剪影投射在长廊上，身后“手术室”三个字构成了这一画面的字幕。父亲俯在母亲所躺的病床边，彼此额头紧贴，紧握着对方的手仿佛紧握着对方的心，恰似他们当年那样渴望得到对方，又如同一对恋人被强行拆散时那样地绝望。
---- To Love Enough
◇ Moreover,the problem of fusing Internet with television is also one of defining the services offered.Information,entertainment and relaxation appear at first to be quite different needs.
此外，网络和电视集成问题被定义为提供的服务之一。信息、娱乐和休闲对于不同需要都是第一位的。
◇ “Gamma-ray bursts may be the most distant things we will ever see and as such will act as beacons to probe into the very distant regions of the universe when stars and galaxies were first formed.”
伽马射线爆炸是我们所见的最远距离的东西，当在这宇宙星星和星系最初形成时它就像信号灯一样，促使我们去探究宇宙更远的地方。
---- The Big Bang