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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
-- During the first months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried, never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public.
-- At first the passengers were much frightened, but Captain Anderson hastened to reassure them.
-- My departure for France was fixed for the first days in May.
-- The United States were the first in the field; and in New York they made preparations for an expedition destined to pursue this narwhal.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even walking up the path to the church, confident as she was that in every respect she stood beyond all vulgar judgment, knowing perfectly that her appearance was complete and perfect, according to the first standards, yet she suffered a torture, under her confidence and her pride, feeling herself exposed to wounds and to mockery and to despite.
-- The father stepped out first into the air of the morning, like a shadow.
-- First person singular is enough for me."
-- They're too much like other people, not exciting, after the first acquaintance."
-- The first syllable was high and slow, the second dropped down.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four miles' walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow shower.
-- No, reprobate!you are a castaway be off, or I'll hurt you seriously!I'll have you all modelled in wax and clay!and the first who passes the limits I fix shall I'll not say what he shall be done to but, you'll see!Go, I'm looking at you!
-- At first the young man appeared about to befriend me.
-- At the top of an extra page (quite a treasure, probably, when first lighted on) I was greatly amused to behold an excellent caricature of my friend Joseph, rudely, yet powerfully sketched.
-- "I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper!I insist on perfect sobriety and silence.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had indeed: when Alice first found her in the ashes, she had been only three inches high and here she was, half a head taller than Alice herself!
-- At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙PART ONEThe Old Buccaneer1 The Old Sea-dog at the "Admiral Benbow"QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
-- At first we thought it was the want of company of his own kind that made him ask this question, but at last we began to see he was desirous to avoid them.
-- He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my "weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg" and let him know the moment he appeared.
-- Often enough when the first of the month came round and I applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for "the seafaring man with one leg."
-- At first I had supposed "the dead man's chest" to be that identical big box of his upstairs in the front room, and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares with that of the one-legged seafaring man.
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