first

英[fɜːst]美[fɜːrst]

det.第一，首要的；

pron.第一次；

n.首例，（英国大学的）优等学位；

adv.*初，首次，宁愿；

复数：firsts;

英语六级真题

The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70 white storks ( ' , 鹳) from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months of their lives.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

John, tell us about the first survey.

I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.

I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?( ' , 9 ) Wh e n f a c i n g a n e w situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

Frederick's central idea, that stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely, inspired the first fully fitted kitchen, designed in the 1920s by Margarete Schütter-Libotsky.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

On a glacier-filled island with fjords ( ' , 峡湾) and elephant seals, Russia has built Antarctica's first Orthodox church on a hill overlooking its research base.

Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.

For the first time, the world's nations agreed to keep global warming well below 2 ℃.

Fitbit, for example, released its first smartwatch Monday, selling with a clear purpose – to improve your fitness – and promoting it as a tool, not a toy.

117 With Russia's help, Belarus is preparing to build its first Antarctic base.

Devils Tower, the first national monument in America, could almost be mistaken for the stump of an enormous tree.

When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

The graduation rate of first-generation students at Nijay's university was incredibly low.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first ( ' , or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry), and education, like any other complicated endeavor, takes times.

That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

Students are placed in small groups with counselors ( ' , trained seniors on campus); they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity ( ' , 联 系 ) groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students ( ' , the latter being one of the most common programs for students).

Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

Some top institutions like Yale seem to provide first-generation students with more support than they actually need.

Some elite universities attach great importance to building up the first-generation student's self-confidence.

She is expecting up to 20 people at the first meeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.

Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.

Nearly three-quarters of the first group guessed that Mr.

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

Many universities simply refuse to release their exact graduation rates for first-generation students.

Many first-generation college-goers have doubts about their abilities to get a college degree.

Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm First in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.

It is the first to launch suborbital flights.

I'm First distributes information to help first-generation college-goers find schools that are most suitable for them.

Howard, a well-regarded historically black college, had an array of resources for its first-generation students, including matching kids with counselors, connecting first-generation students to one another, and TRIO, a national program that supported 200 students on Howard's campus.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

First generation college students tend to have much heavier financial burdens than their peers.

Elite universities tend to graduate first-generation students at a higher rate.

Chelsea Jones, who now directs student programming at I'm First, was a first-generation college student at Howard.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.

A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.

( ' , Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent)Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

"The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t

After all, students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place.

After being dogged by technical delays for years, sir Richard Branson, virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a Spaceship Two craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

After conducting extensive research in which he studied the festivals of many African groups of people, he decided that the new holiday should be a harvest or "first fruits" celebration, incorporating ideas from many different harvest traditions.

After the first pair of tasks was completed, one group of participants was assigned an undemanding activity intended to cause their minds to wander.

And his home city of Sacramento, California should see the technology's first test.

And Sainz Breeze is the first UK supermarket to stock the company's crunchy roasted crickets.

And she criticizes me in exactly the same way she did when I was first unpublished and I was starting.

And with it, I was able to print the first garment, a red Jacket that had the word "Freedom" embedded into it.

As the plant dries, these resources take on first the properties of honey, then rubber, and finally enter a glass-like state that is the most stable state that the plant can maintain, Farrant says.

At first, Rosen bought groceries and made house payments with the help from unemployment insurance.

At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school.

But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?

But I can never forget the first speech of thanks I did.

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

But the first bite was a pleasant surprise, a little dry and lacking of taste, but at least a wing didn't get stuck in my throat.

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?

Chelsea Jones, who now directs student programming at I'm first, was a first-generation college student at Howard.

Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

Efforts like painting eyes on cow butts may seem crazy at first, but they could make actual headway in the fight for conservation.

Families with modest incomes should ensure the breadwinner or breadwinners first.

first of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.

first, keeping up with the pace of technological change; recruiting high-quality staff in a time of skills shortages in it as a whole and in a highly competitive market; and the issue of retaining staff once they've been recruited and trained.

first, people are living longer with a lot more complex needs.

first, the earthquake would shake metropolitan areas including Seattle and Portland.

first, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting well-being, then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in well-being.

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to

Frederick's central idea, that "stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely", inspired the first fully fitted kitchen,designed in the 1920s by Margarete Schütter-Libotsky.

When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the 27 climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.

his first partnership was with Paul and Phyllis Amburgh, owners of the Dharma Lea farm in New York.

I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at her first trial.

I don't want them to suspect this is my first trial.

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

In the first study, three-year-olds watch two videos shown side by side.

In the same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time.

It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

It isn't, however, the first time it has ever been seen.

It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm first in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.

Kwanzaa is a Kiswahili word meaning "the first fruits of the harvest".

Ludacris and the former CEO of Bank of America Ken Lewis are alumni of my college, as well as VICE's first female editor-in-chief, Ellis Jones.

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm first, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

Maybe you see low customer participation at first, or conversely, so much success that the cost of recycling becomes too high.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ORD

*早的;*先的;第一位的

The first thing, person, event, or period of time is the one that happens or comes before all the others of the same kind.

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ADV

*早;*先;先

If you do something first, you do it before anyone else does, or before you do anything else.

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ORD

第一(次)的;首(次)的

When something happens or is done for the first time, it has never happened or been done before.

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N-SING

首次出现的事物;首例

An event that is described as a first has never happened before and is important or exciting.

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PRON

第一次;首次

The first you hear of something or the first you know about it is the time when you first become aware of it.

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ADV

*初;起初;开始

You use first when you are talking about what happens in the early part of an event or experience, in contrast to what happens later.

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ADV

(强调不愿意做某事)宁可，宁愿

In order to emphasize your determination not to do a particular thing, you can say that rather than do it, you would do something else first .

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ADV

(用于列举条目)第一，首先

You use first when you are about to give the first in a series of items.

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ORD

(一列中)离得*近的，*前面的

The first thing, person, or place in a line is the one that is nearest to you or nearest to the front.

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ORD

首要的;头等的

You use first to refer to the best or most important thing or person of a particular kind.

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ORD

(用于工作或职位的头衔中)*高的

First is used in the title of the job or position of someone who has a higher rank than anyone else with the same basic job title.

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N-COUNT

(英国大学的)优等学位，一级荣誉学位

In British universities, a first is an honours degree of the highest standard.

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PHRASE

第一;首先

You use first of all to introduce the first of a number of things that you want to say.

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PHRASE

*初;起初;开始时

You use at first when you are talking about what happens in the early stages of an event or experience, or just after something else has happened, in contrast to what happens later.

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PHRASE

居于首要地位;占据头等位置

If you say that someone or something comes first for a particular person, you mean they treat or consider that person or thing as more important than anything else.

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PHRASE

先到先接待;先到先供应;按先来后到对待

You say 'first come first served' to indicate that a group of people or things will be dealt with or given something in the order in which they arrive.

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PHRASE

从*初;从一开始

From the first means ever since something started.

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PHRASE

第一手地;直接;亲自

If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.

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PHRASE

对…一无所知;对…毫不知晓

If you say that you do not know the first thing about something, you are emphasizing that you know absolutely nothing about it.

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PHRASE

第一;首先

You use first off to introduce the first of a number of things that you want to say.

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视…为*重要;把…放在首位

If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.

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*重要的先做;*要紧的先处理

You say 'first things first' when you are talking about something that should be done or dealt with before anything else because it is the most important.

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英汉词典释义

n.

第一(个人或事物)

adv.

第一, *早, 首先

首次

宁愿

adj.

第一的; *初的; *早的; *先的; 第一流的; *重要的

一点也不

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the first or highest in an ordering or series;

2. the first element in a countable series;

3. the time at which something is supposed to begin;

4. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first base

5. an honours degree of the highest class

6. the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

Adjective

1. preceding all others in time or space or degree;

2. indicating the beginning unit in a series

3. serving to set in motion;

4. serving to begin;

5. ranking above all others;

6. highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections;

7. being the gear producing the lowest drive speed;

Adverb

1. before anything else;

2. the initial time;

3. before another in time, space, or importance;

4. prominently forward;

行业词典

体育： 比赛冠*；

物理学： 第一类流；first-class current；一级相变；first-order phase transition；

电力： 一阶电路；first-order circuit；