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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?
-- Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original the Tyre of this Carthage; the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
-- Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?
-- And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones so goes the story to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
-- It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the uses of the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash-box in the porch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, 'Let me see the child, and die.'
-- Everybody knows the story of another experimental philosopher who had a great theory about a horse being able to live without eating, and who demonstrated it so well, that he had got his own horse down to a straw a day, and would unquestionably have rendered him a very spirited and rampacious animal on nothing at all, if he had not died, four-and-twenty hours before he was to have had his first comfortable bait of air.
-- Wretched as were the little companions in misery he was leaving behind, they were the only friends he had ever known; and a sense of his lonelines s in the great wide world, sank into the child's heart for the first time.
-- For the first six months after Oliver Twist was removed, the system was in full operation.
-- It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained a becoming feeling of respect for the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat, he would have established that sage individual's prophetic character, once and for ever, by tying one end of his pocket-handkerchief to a hook in the wall, and attaching himself to the other.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
-- The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.
-- First of all, he asked Miss Lucas.
-- O that he had sprained his ankle in the first place!'
-- They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first pri-vate seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No!You knew from the first moment when you saw me here, that I was a gentleman?'
-- Here the sobs and the tears, and the tearing hand, which had all been suspended together since the first surprise, went on together anew.
-- He took another candle from a cupboard, lighted it, left the first on the table, and went upon his errand.
-- 'There's her tomorrow's partridge in the larder her first this year; say the word and I'll cook it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first sound in the morning was her voice as she went about the house singing like a lark, and the last sound at night was the same cheery sound, for the girls never grew too old for that familiar lullaby.
-- CHAPTER TWOJo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning.
-- 'She took it out a minute ago, and went off with it to put a ribbon on it, or some such notion,' replied Jo, dancing about the room to take the first stiffness off the new army slip-pers.
-- A moment was allowed for the first thrill to subside, then Hugo, the villain, stalked in with a clanking sword at his side, a slouching hat, black beard, mysterious cloak, and the boots.
-- It quite took their breath away, and they stared first at the table and then at their mother, who looked as if she enjoyed it immensely.
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