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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the folly as well as the uselessness of the adventure was pointed out to him, he contented himself with replying, "If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was a bad sign that the Doc should first go down the hall to his bedroom.
-- First one ever took out 'round here.
-- I did it!Old Doc Vickerson, he did the first 'pendectomy in THIS neck of the woods, you bet!
-- And first museum.
-- I haven't put away money like Doc Needham, but I started first c'lection--I started it!"
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：
-- There he had already begun his first work, 'Poor Folk.'
-- In 1864 he lost his first wife and his brother Mihail.
-- He sat down at a sticky little table in a dark and dirty corner; or-dered some beer, and eagerly drank off the first glassful.
-- There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
-- For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watsonof Rockingham, Northamptonshire 3Table Of ContentsPREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION .
-- 332My First DissipationCHAPTER XXV .
-- A Last Retrospect 7PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITIONI DO not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, inthe first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with thecomposure which this formal heading would seem to require.
-- I need say nothing here on the first head, because nothing canshow better than my history whether that prediction was verifiedor falsified by the result.
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Miss Taylor's loss which first brought grief.
-- It was on the wedding-day of this beloved friend that Emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance.
-- The Woodhouses were first in consequence there.
-- He had never been an unhappy man; his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how de-lightful a well-judging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
-- Her first attempts at usefulness were in an endeavour to find out who were the parents, but Harriet could not tell.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far from the Madding CrowdPREFACEIn reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.
-- The first to do so was the now defunct Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles "The Wessex Labourer," the article turning out to be no dissertation on farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west counties, and his presentation in these stories.
-- But I ask all good and gentle readers to be so kind as to forget this, and to refuse steadfastly to believe that there are any inhabitants of a Victorian Wessex outside the pages of this and the companion volumes in which they were first discovered.
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