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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilised mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.
-- The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his speciality from his youth, he wisely refrained from deputing the task of tending them at this season to a hireling or a novice.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which looks out upon the street through the two barred windows already mentioned.
-- The first room exhales an odor for which there is no name in the language, and which should be called the _odeur de pension_.
-- The best rooms in the house were on the first story, Mme.
-- He belonged to the number of young men who know as children that their parents' hopes are centered on them, and deliberately prepare themselves for a great career, subordinating their studies from the first to this end, carefully watching the indications of the course of events, calculating the probable turn that affairs will take, that they may be the first to profit by them.
-- When he first came there he had taken the rooms now occupied by Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
-- These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.
-- But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
-- I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; finding that he was unemployed in this city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.
-- I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You've got to give me the first waltz and Stu the last one and you've got to eat supper with us.
-- Scarlett's face did not change but her lips went white like a person who has received a stunning blow withoutwarning and who, in the first moments of shock, does not realize what has happened.
-- After all, it's our first day home and shehasn't seen us in quite a spell.
-- It isn't as if this was the first time."
-- That was the first time the twins' interest had ever diverged, and Brent was resentful of his brother'sattentions to a girl who seemed to him not at all remarkable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
-- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.
-- I was afraid to sleep, even if I had been inclined, for I knew that at the first faint dawn of morning I must rob the pantry.
-- He held me by the collar and stared at me so, that I began to think his first idea about cutting my throat had revived.
-- I opened the door to the company,--making believe that it was a habit of ours to open that door,--and I opened it first to Mr. Wopsle, next to Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, and last of all to Uncle Pumblechook.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
-- At first he refused, but she wept still more and more, and fell at his feet, till at last he consented; but the moment she came to her father's house the guards awoke and he was taken prisoner again.
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