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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so cool and pleasant that the two brothers said, 'Let us sit down by the side of the river, and rest a while, to eat and drink.'
-- First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feath-ers.
-- They could not, however, reach the great city the first day; so when night came on, they went into a wood to sleep.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for any further particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book.
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- In my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and learned to speak as they did.
-- His first inducements to travel.
-- We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage was at first very prosperous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, if Mr. M'Choakumchild,' said the gentleman, 'will proceed to give his first lesson here, Mr. Gradgrind, I shall be happy, at your request, to observe his mode of procedure.'
-- The first object with which they had an association, or of which they had a remembrance, was a large black board with a dry Ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it.
-- Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt his letters from the outsides of the shops, Mrs. Gradgrind, and was first able to tell the time upon a dial-plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant.
-- 'Why, the fact is, I saw the girl myself, for the first time, only just now.
-- From the first he had sought to conciliate that gentleman, for the sake of the deserted girl.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT CHAPTER 3 AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY CHAPTER 4 WE START ON THE JOURNEY CHAPTER 5 FIRST LESSONS IN CLIMBING CHAPTER 6 OUR VOYAGE TO ICELAND CHAPTER 7 CONVERSATION AND DISCOVERY CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER--OFF AT LAST CHAPTER 9 OUR START--WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY CHAPTER 10 TRAVELING IN ICELAND CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS--THE "REYKIR" CHAPTER 12 THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS CHAPTER 13 THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS CHAPTER 14 THE REAL JOURNEY COMMENCES CHAPTER 15 WE CONTINUE OUR DESCENT CHAPTER 16 THE EASTERN TUNNEL CHAPTER 17 DEEPER AND DEEPER--THE COAL MINE CHAPTER 18 THE WRONG ROAD!
-- The first letter is a double M, which was only added to the Icelandic language in the twelfth century--this makes the parchment two hundred years posterior to the volume."
-- "In the first place," he continued, "there must be a clue to the meaning.
-- The first and the last might, in a sentence connected with Iceland, mean sea of ice.
-- My delight, my emotion may be imagined, my eyes were dazzled and I trembled so that at first I could make nothing of it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now he had become a first lieutenant in a smart regiment, so he could mock at everything more becomingly in uniform.
-- At first they fascinated Connie with a sort of horror; she felt she was living underground.
-- At first Connie suffered from the steady drizzle of resentment that came from the village.
-- This stubborn, instinctive We think ourselves as good as you, if you ARE Lady Chatterley! puzzled and baffled Connie at first extremely.
-- At first she was thrilled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Say what the hour is,' grumbled the first man.
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