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核心畫面

You can picture a row of things lined up, and 'first' is the one at the very front — the one numbered 1, standing before all the others in order.

可以想成一排東西照順序排好，first 就是站在最前面、編號 1 的那一個——別人都排在它後面。這個「在順序上排第一…更多收起可以想成一排東西照順序排好，first 就是站在最前面、編號 1 的那一個——別人都排在它後面。這個「在順序上排第一」的畫面，後來往幾個方向延伸：可以是排名上的第一，也可以是時間上的最早，可以是開頭、第一個提到的，也可以引申成「最重要、最優先」（畢竟我們常把最重要的擺在最前面）。

原始詞典資料16 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Firstname

  • 1

    A surname.

firstadj詞源 1/fɜːst/

  • 1

    Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

    • Hancock was first to arrive.
    • The first day of September 2013 was a Sunday.
  • 2

    Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.

    • Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
    • the first violinist
  • 3

    Of or belonging to a first family.

    • First Cat; First Daughter; First Dog; First Son
  • 4

    Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.

firstadv詞源 1/fɜːst/

  • 1

    Before anything else; firstly.

    • Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.
    • I plunged nose first into the water.
  • 2

    For the first time.

    • I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.

firstnoun詞源 1/fɜːst/

  • 1

    The person or thing in the first position.

    • He was the first to complete the course.
    • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • 2

    The first gear of an engine.

  • 3

    Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

    • This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.
    • I remember other firsts: how I wussily asked her out the first time, and the first time I told her I loved her.
  • 4

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesFirst base.

    • There was a close play at first.
  • 5

    A first-class honours degree.

    • [Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.
  • 6

    A first-edition copy of some publication.

  • 7

    A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.

    • one forty-first of the estate

firstverb詞源 1/fɜːst/

  • 1

    rareTo propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.

    • This motion has been firsted and seconded. I desire to third it.
    • Sure—er—well, the motion was firsted and seconded that we kick ’em out; […]

firstnoun詞源 2/fɜːst/

  • 1

    obsoleteTime; time granted; respite.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。