站在最前面
這一族就是核心畫面本身：位置上的最前面，以及那個位置帶來的分量。
most important · adjective · C2
In the leading or most important place among a group of people or things.
居首位
核心畫面
A line of people or things, and one of them is out at the very front — further forward than anything else. Foremost is built from 'fore' (in front) plus a doubled superlative ending, so it means 'the most to-the-front there is'. Whether that front position is physical or a matter of reputation, the picture is the same.
一排人或一排東西往前排開，其中有一個站在最前面——不是前面幾個之一，是最前面那一個。foremost 的結構就是 f…更多收起
一排人或一排東西往前排開，其中有一個站在最前面——不是前面幾個之一，是最前面那一個。foremost 的結構就是 fore（前面）加上最高級的字尾，而且歷史上還疊了兩次最高級，所以它天生就帶著「前到不能再前」的力道。這個「最前面」有時候是位置上的，有時候是地位上的：站在隊伍最前頭，和在同行裡排第一，其實是同一個畫面換了場地。From the word’s history
From Old English formest / fyrmest 'earliest, first, most prominent', from the stem fore- 'in front' plus a superlative ending; the modern spelling was reshaped by folk association with 'most'. The 'most to the front' sense has been there from the start.
foremost 來自古英語 formest / fyrmest，意思是「最早的、最前的、最突出的」，字根是表示「前面」的 fore-，後面接最高級字尾；現在的拼法是後來被 most 這個字影響而改寫的。也就是說「排在最前面」這件事從古英語就在裡面，沒有轉過彎——今天的兩個用法都還踩在同一塊地上。
Wiktionary entry for foremost (Old English formest/fyrmest < Proto-Germanic *frumistaz, fore- + superlative suffix); Merriam-Webster notes the later respelling after most.
One branch
原始詞典資料8 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。
Foremostname
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A village in Alberta, Canada.
foremostadj/ˈfɔː.məʊst/
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Positioned in front of (all) others in space, most forward.
- She prankes not by hir mistresse side, she preases not to bée / The foremost of the companie, as when she erst was frée.
- As I plunged into the reeds, my foremost pursuers emerged from the gap.
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Coming before (all) others in time.
- […] of both them, she / (By Pallas counsell) was to haue the grace / Of foremost greeting.
- 1769, Oliver Goldsmith, The Roman History, London: S. Baker and G. Leigh et al., Volume 1, Chapter 16, p. 254, He was the best horseman, and the swiftest runner of his time. He was ever the foremost to engage, and the last to retreat;
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Of the highest rank or position; of the greatest importance; of the highest priority.
- The exhibition features works by the country’s foremost artists.
- Foremost among the workers’ grievances was the company’s failure to address the many safety issues in the plant.
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nauticaltransportClosest to the bow.
- I let fall the tiller, turned my back on them, and sat down on the foremost thwart.
foremostadv/ˈfɔː.məʊst/
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In front, prominently forward.
- No Man hath more nicely observed our Climate, than the Bookseller who bought the Copy of this Work; He knows to a Tittle what Subjects will best go off in a dry Year, and which it is proper to expose foremost, when the Weather-glass is fallen to much Rain.
- 1820, John Keats, “Lamia,” Part 1, in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Taylor and Hessey, p. 15, She saw the young Corinthian Lycius / Charioting foremost in the envious race,
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First in time.
- c. 1618, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Old Law, London: Edward Archer, 1656, Act III, Scene 1, p. 41, Alwayes the worst goes foremost, so twill prove I hope
- Our thirst, at length, and hunger both sufficed, / I, foremost speaking, ask’d you to the wars
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Most importantly.
- […] Mrs. Nickleby, with the utmost sincerity, gave vent to her sorrows after her own peculiar fashion of considering herself foremost,
- It seemed as if he had been gently awakened from a long sleep. The corners of his mouth hung down, drugged and paralyzed, and through the gray light of this soft, new-born consciousness it occurred to him first, prime and foremost (order, order, he found himself pleading) that he was not properly articulating.
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。