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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not knowing that it was a fit, and seeing his victim disappear head foremost into the darkness, hearing his head strike the stone steps below with a crash, Rogojin rushed downstairs, skirting the body, and flung himself headlong out of the hotel, like a raving madman.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Achilles answered, 'Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Dan-aan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans.'
-- Let the Achaeans be hemmed in at the sterns of their ships, and perish on the sea-shore, that they may reap what joy they may of their king, and that Agamemnon may rue his blind-ness in offering insult to the foremost of the Achaeans.'
-- But he who has seen it is the foremost man among us; we must therefore set about getting the people under arms.'
-- He had left a wife behind him in Phylace to tear her cheeks in sor-row, and his house was only half finished, for he was slain by a Dardanian warrior while leaping foremost of the Achae-ans upon the soil of Troy.
-- Of the men, Ajax, son of Telamon, was much the foremost so long as Achilles' anger lasted, for Achil-les excelled him greatly and he had also better horses; but Achilles was now holding aloof at his ships by reason of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and his people passed their time upon the sea shore, throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark, and in archery.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I plunged into the reeds, my foremost pursuers emerged from the gap.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The foremost Indian bounded like a stricken deer, and fell headlong among the clefts of the island.
-- ' Pope's Illiad ora stood foremost among the prisoners, entwining her Carms in those of Alice, in the tenderness of sisterly love.
-- But Hawkeye, whose duty led him foremost in the adventure, knew the character of those with whom he was about to contend too well to trust the treacherous quiet.
-- A few of the older and more cunning Hurons, who had not been deceived by the artifice which had been practiced to draw their fire, now made a close and deadly discharge of their pieces and justified the apprehen-sions of the scout by felling three of his foremost warriors.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was foremost at all races and cock fights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength always acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes, setting his hat on one side, and giving his decisions with an air and tone that admitted of no gainsay or appeal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was always foremost among them.
-- Foremost among them is his good old master, who comes and takes him by the hand.
-- Foremost among them, smooth Sampson Brass and Sally, arm in arm, claim our polite attention.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even as he did so, he reeled, put his hand to his throat, stood swaying for a moment, and then, with a peculiar sound, fell from his whole height face foremost to the floor.
-- This had nearly tossed me off into the sea; and now I lost no time, crawled back along the bowsprit, and tumbled head foremost on the deck.
-- shouted Merry; and the foremost broke into a run.
-- Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation; the man with the bandage spun round like a teetotum and fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching; and the other three turned and ran for it with all their might.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver lay, covered with mud and dust, and bleeding from the mouth, looking wildly round upon the heap of faces that surrounded him, when the old gentleman was officiously dragged and pushed into the circle by the foremost of the pursuers.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was several hours after Friday came back to me be-fore they came back to their boat; and we could hear the foremost of them, long before they came quite up, calling to those behind to come along; and could also hear them answer, and complain how lame and tired they were, and not able to come any faster: which was very welcome news to us.
扩展阅读：