"It's not going to be the old policy as usual, first of all because old policies didn't work,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

First of all, a lot of people don't seem to even grasp that basic point that you buy stocks for the dividends.

首先,很多人不明确这一基本点,买股票就是为了股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

First of all, we don't have tapes anymore in computers and even if we did, you don't want to be programming at that level.

首先，我们不再在计算机里面用磁盘了,即使我们用，你不会想在这个阶段上编程。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He says that first of all, people don't read as much as they used to and people know his name, but they don't read his novels.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

First of all, cannibalism, I believe, is morally incorrect so you shouldn't be eating human anyway.

首先，我认为食人有违伦理,你不管怎样都不该吃人。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Well, first of all, you may not survive for long, if you truly don't accept the fact that things, people being no exception fall when left in mid-air.

首先，你可能活不长，如果你不接受，人会从半空中掉下来的事实。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

First of all, this thing can't sustain itself.

首先，它自我矛盾了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

When you do Sitting Meditations and Buddhism, this medical school teach, you have your eyes open a reminder, that first of all, you don't fall asleep but also to remind you that you are supposed to be engaging the world as you do it, rather than having your eyes closed and isolating yourself.

当你学习佛教，进行坐禅时，据医学院的方法，你要睁开双眼,提醒自己，首先不要睡着,也是为了提醒自己,冥想时也要参与到这个世界中来，而不是闭上双眼,与外界隔绝。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

First of all, Empson doesn't really kind of settle into - a sense that it's all about the reader-- that is to say, that it's all about the reader's experience of the literary.

首先，Empson并没有真正,从读者角度考虑问题-,也就是说,没有从读者的文学经历上考虑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

First of all, negative time should not bother anybody; t=0 is when I set the clock, I measured time forward, but yesterday would be t = -1 day, right?

首先,负的时间对我们不存在任何干扰,t=0使我们设定的初始时间,我是用顺序计时,所以昨天就可以记为-1天,对吗

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选