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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a number of skirmishes with Mrs. Hall on matters of domestic discipline, but in every case until late April, when the first signs of penury began, he over-rode her by the easy expedient of an extra payment.
-- Sussex folk have few superstitions, and it was only after the events of early April that the thought of the supernatural was first whispered in the village.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- N February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by Ocollision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gen-tleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
-- But in the first place I must state that there never were four men in the dingey, the number was three.
-- After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions.
-- Even had it been under commonplace circumstances, it would have made me a trifle thoughtful; but in the first place was the singulari-ty of an educated man living on this unknown little island, and coupled with that the extraordinary nature of his lug-gage.
-- Alter-nately I appealed to one and another of the three men, first to the grey-haired man to let me land, and then to the drunk-en captain to keep me aboard.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After that inspection the cubs are free to run where they please, and until they have killed their first buck no excuse is accepted if a grown wolf of the Pack kills one of them.
-- Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, 'Come along, Little Brother,' and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
-- Many of the wolves that looked thee over when thou wast brought to the Coun-cil first are old too, and the young wolves believe, as Shere Khan has taught them, that a man-cub has no place with the Pack.
-- Strike first and then give tongue.
-- But first I must say fare-well to my mother.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave ap-pellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to them-selves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.
-- The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent.
-- They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- That which at first was only rumor, soon became certainty, as orders passed from the quarters of the commander-in-chief to the several corps he had selected for this service, to prepare for their speedy departure.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squir-rel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.
-- It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high- ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low project- ing eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather.
-- Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no ac-quaintance left to call upon.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE MOON AND SIXPENCEChapter II confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.
-- It is true I knew him more intimately than most: I met him first before ever he became a painter, and I saw him not infrequently during the difficult years he spent in Paris; but I do not suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Tahiti.
-- I was very young when I wrote my first book.
-- I think that I have gathered in the years that intervene between then and now a fair knowledge of mankind, but even if when I first met the Stricklands I had the experience which I have now, I do not believe that I should have judged them differently.
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