first是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 第一； 最初； 首次n. 开始pron. 第一名，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：
-- It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
-- The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of 'God bless you, merry gentleman!May nothing you dis-may!'
-- Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls One.'
-- but stopped at the first syllable.
-- Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits hen Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out Wof bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A tale of two citiesII The Mail t was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in INovember, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
-- As to this, his natural and not to be alienated inheri-tance, the messenger on horseback had exactly the same possessions as the King, the first Minister of State, or the richest merchant in London.
-- Al-most at the first word, Monsieur Defarge started and became deeply attentive.
-- As he was, when I first saw him after they found me and demanded to know if I would take him, and, at my peril be discreet as he was then, so he is now.'
-- Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.
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：
-- So the nightingale came forth and sang so delightfully that at first no one could say anything ill-humored of her.
-- One might have thought at first they were servants come to accompany their mis-tresses home; but on looking nearer, one soon saw they could scarcely be mere servants; their forms were too noble for that, their skin too fine, the cut of their dress too strik-ing.
-- First came a dozen drummers, who un-derstood pretty well how to handle their instruments; then came halberdiers, and some armed with cross-bows.
-- I shall speak about it at the first opportunity.
-- 'It is a very old name, and, as well as I recollect, he was the first printer that appeared in Denmark.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.
-- And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family--the monkey.
-- The principal qualities in Stepan Arkadyevitch which had gained him this universal respect in the service consisted, in the first place, of his extreme indulgence for others, founded on a consciousness of his own shortcomings; secondly, of his perfect liberalism--not the liberalism he read of in the papers, but the liberalism that was in his blood, in virtue of which he treated all men perfectly equally and exactly the same, whatever their fortune or calling might be; and thirdly--the most important point--his complete indifference to the business in which he was engaged, in consequence of which he was never carried away, and never made mistakes.
-- Levin did not remember his own mother, and his only sister was older than he was, so that it was in the Shtcherbatskys' house that he saw for the first time that inner life of an old, noble, cultivated, and honorable family of which he had been deprived by the death of his father and mother.
-- Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In the first place, he is no robber at all," returned Ralph, positively.
-- There are neither guards nor gratings to protect its treasures; gold, silver, banknotes are freely exposed, at the mercy of the first comer.
-- At first some rash individuals, principally of the gentler sex, espoused his cause, which became still more popular when the Illustrated London News came out with his portrait, copied from a photograph in the Reform Club.
-- They were offered by packages, at first of five, then of ten, until at last nobody would take less than twenty, fifty, a hundred!
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