"I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Your first thing is responsibility to fulfill your rights to your people, to your culture, to your family, to your government.

你的首要任务是履行义务而不是行使权利,对人民，对文化圈，对家庭，对政府都是如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Let's take the first thing first, the radical theology. I'm only able to talk about a small component of Milton's theological daring here.

先来谈激进的神学观点，在这里我只能,谈及弥尔顿神学上的大胆突破的一个小小的组成部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

The first thing I have to do is give you understanding of the physics of the gas discharge tube.

首先要做的就是让你们理解,气体放电管的物理学原理。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"In the end,schools ought to do what's the right thing for their students, first and foremost."

VOA: special.2010.10.07

And then, going back to the first question that you ask me, what's the thing that I measure the most?

回到你问的第一个问题，我看重的衡量标准是什么？

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

The first thing they did was to write an advertisement to be published in newspapers.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Okay, good, so what we're going to do is we're going to differentiate this thing to find a first order condition.

好吧,那我们接下来,对它求导后找出一阶条件

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Well,the first thing to know is that prices are different from school to school.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

I did two things: first thing I did when I got to Harvard, was to find out where the program for poor children was, and Black Panther Party was sponsoring.

当我到了哈佛之后，我做了两件事，首先我去找到为贫困学生设立的项目，而黑豹党提供了帮助。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So,first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-- nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

VOA: special.2011.03.17

I'm thinking about a problem, I'm going to show you an example in a second, first thing I'm going to do is say, what is the thing that's going to change every time I run through the same set of code?

我要解决一个问题，我马上会让大家看一个例子，第一件我要做的事情就是,弄明白每次运行同样的指令集时,每次都会改变的东西是什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So,first of all,let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

VOA: special.2011.05.19

So this, where we start at zero is not a node, is the first thing to point out.

零点不是节点，这是第一个要指出来的，当我们。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"They are not looking to hire as many immigrants. So this is the first thing that reduces the level of migration.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

They're in a -the first thing to understand is that -I start out by telling you the story of the goldsmith banker.

它们...,首先要弄明白的是,在一开始我讲了金匠银行家的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It sticks to anything and the grass is the first thing out there and it sticks right to it."

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The first and most obvious thing to say about the Republic is that it is a long book.

首先也是《理想国》,最明显的特征,就是其厚度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"The first thing is corruption, the education system, and we need more universities to be built in Namibia,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

You sort of expect something like, "In the beginning, God created heaven and earth," Like this was the first thing to happen in time.

你会猜想这样的事情，比如，“开始的时候，上帝创造了天和地“,就好像这是最初发生的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So the first thing I tell an actor to do is learn your craft and be ready when you get the opportunity."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The first thing you probably want to accomplish or at least one thing that seems easy is find the graphic of the cookie sheet that you happen to want for this project.

你第一件要完成的任务,或者说你最起码要做的，是绘出,这个工程里面出现的各式各样的饼干人物图。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"The first thing is not numbers,". "It is to find and fine-tune the right approach to implement the strategy already laid down.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Now, the first thing to notice is that to get the conclusion we need all three premises.

现在 首先要注意的是,只有三个前提全部成立才能得出结论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So the first thing which we are requesting is to come back to constitutional order.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The first thing that came to my mind was this idea back in 2000.

我想到的第一个点子,是在2000年的那个点子。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Poverty is not first thing that comes to mind when you think of Japan.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

So the first thing we got to do is sort of lock on to the tonic.

我们来听一下，我们要做的第一件是是锁定主音。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

First thing you've got to do is, realize that some of these things are not God-given.

首先你要做的是,意识到这些并不是上帝赐予的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选