foremost是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 最重要的(地) , 第一流的(地)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought, if this man could be raised up now, what would be his foremost thoughts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the foremost billows rolled past, bear-ing the prison officers with them, and threatening them all with instant death if any secret nook remained undisclosed, Defarge laid his strong hand on the breast of one of these men a man with a grey head, who had a lighted torch in his hand separated him from the rest, and got him be-tween himself and the wall.
-- Saint Antoine was clamorous to have its wine-shop keeper foremost in the guard upon the governor who had defended the Bastille and shot the people.
-- Down, and up, and head foremost on the steps of the building; now, on his knees; now, on his feet; now, on his back; dragged, and struck at, and stifled by the bunches of grass and straw that were thrust into his face by hundreds of hands; torn, bruised, panting, bleeding, yet always en-treating and beseeching for mercy; now full of vehement agony of action, with a small clear space about him as the people drew one another back that they might see; now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs; he was hauled to the nearest street corner where one of the fatal lamps swung, and there Madame Defarge let him go as a cat might have done to a mouse and silently and com-posedly looked at him while they made ready, and while he besought her: the women passionately screeching at him all 319the time, and the men sternly calling out to have him killed with grass in his mouth.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I did not go quite in, I remained in the foremost room, in the twilight, but I stood there quite well; I saw everything, and I know 180 Andersen's Fairy Taleseverything!I have been in the antechamber at the court of Poesy.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last of the mowers were just ending their rows while the foremost snatched up their coats onto their shoulders, and crossed the road towards Mashkin Upland.
-- Of his women friends, foremost amongst them Countess Lidia Ivanovna, Alexey Alexandrovitch never thought.
-- The foremost clouds, lowering and black as soot- laden smoke, rushed with extraordinary swiftness over the sky.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they'd told him to jump head foremost from the staircase, he would have done it without thought or hesitation in their service.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dressing myself as quietly as I could, and leaving Peggotty to lookafter my aunt, I tumbled head foremost into it, and then went for awalk to Hampstead.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were so convinced by such genuine appeals to heart and understanding both that they soon began to crowd in abundantly, among the foremost being visible Jan Coggan and Joseph Poorgrass, who were holiday keeping here to-day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was at a loss to account for this surprising circumstance, and could not help giving my mind to speculations about it, until by and by Millers came down with the baby, which baby was handed to Flopson, which Flopson was handing it to Mrs. Pocket, when she too went fairly head foremost over Mrs. Pocket, baby and all, and was caught by Herbert and myself.
-- Foremost among the two-and-thirty was he; seated, that he might get breath enough to keep life in him.
-- "My dear Biddy, I have forgotten nothing in my life that ever had a foremost place there, and little that ever had any place there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely, none of us in our sober senses and acquainted with figures, are to be told at this time of day, that one of the foremost elements in the existence of the Coketown working-people had been for scores of years, deliberately set at nought?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carry its shining influence through the whole of the official proceedings.
-- The file of mules, jaded by their day's work, turned and wound slowly up the deep ascent; the foremost led by a guide on foot, in his broad-brimmed hat and round jacket, carrying a mountain staff or two upon his shoulder, with whom another guide conversed.
-- It followed that the question was rendered pressing when, where, and how Mr Sparkler should be married to the foremost girl in all this world with no nonsense about her.
-- But his liberated attention soon reverted to the theme that was foremost in his thoughts, and began, for the hundredth time, to dwell upon every circumstance that had impressed itself upon his mind on the mysterious night when he had seen the man at his mother's.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What could be more full of meaning? for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.
-- Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings.
-- "Upon hearing the frantic project of their leader, each in his own separate soul had suddenly lighted, it would seem, upon the same piece of treachery, namely: to be foremost in breaking out, in order to be the first of the three, though the last of the ten, to surrender; and thereby secure whatever small chance of pardon such conduct might merit.
-- There are three whales and three boats; and one of the boats (presumed to contain the missing leg in all its original integrity) is being crunched by the jaws of the foremost whale.
-- According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar.
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