It is often a winning card. In one kind of poker game, the first card to each player is given face down.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

to get a first down as it's called or second and third and fourth down.

去拿下所谓的第一个10码进攻，然后是第二个，第三个，第四个。

美式足球 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish, Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.

然后，纵身一跳，他两脚先伸出去，在空中乱踢乱舞，于是飕的一声，降落到地面。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The heel of the shoe is bigger and heavier than other parts of the shoe, so it would seem more likely to come down first.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

So finger-pointing at the start of each list, 6 is indeed less than 8 so I'm gonna write it down first.

手指指向列表的开始，6肯定比,8小，我先把它写下来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A British doctor named John Langdon Down first described it in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

I know this is a simple example, but when you mature as a programmer, one of the first things you should do when you sit down to tackle some problem is write something like this pseudo code.

我知道这是个很简单的例子，但是当你们成长为一名程序员后，当你们碰到问题后第一件事情就是,该写一些类似于,伪代码的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They opened the door. Armstrong went out first and moved slowly down the ladder.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

dU=dq+dw Well from the first law, du is equal to dq plus dw, and I wrote down everything I knew at the beginning here.

第一定律“,前面我们已经,看到了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

First,if possible, have the person lie down and raise the legs.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

The first step to insight is to ask questions like why do things fall down and not up?

起初的洞察力是问问题,为什么物体坠地而不是上升？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"First,to put down the southern rebellion by force of arms.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

That's four items. Show up, sit down, and the first question is does anybody have a pen?

总共4件东西，你们来到，坐下，第一个问题是你们有带铅笔吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Runners who wear shoes usually come down heel first.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Scholars of the Albright school pointed to texts and clay tablets that were discovered in second millennium sites. So you see down on the bottom the second millennium BCE, obviously going down to 1000; first millennium: 1000 to 0.

亚布莱特学院的学者们指的是,两千多年前的遗址中发现文件和泥板文献，你们看下面,公元前第二个千年，再显然的,往下到一千年；第一个千年是公元前1000年到公元元年。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The first is to help the Mexican government crack down on the powerful drug cartels that operate along the border.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

You need to pin down an object of study, a first principle from which other principles can emerge, and part of the process is to say, "Hey, it's not literature we're talking about.

首要原则是，需要锁定要谈论，即学习的目标，可是，谁知道什么是文学。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's like drinking whiskey for the first time. Burns your throat going down and that's how some people respond,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

First statement by Newton-- I don't feel like writing it down.

牛顿第一定律,我不想写出来

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

British airspace has been closed down for the first time since the September 11,2001 attacks on New York.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Here's one climbing out of the pool: First her face appeared, long and cadaverous, with a bandage-like bathing cap coming down almost to her eyes, and sharp teeth protruding from her mouth.

有一个女人从游泳池中出来了，首先是她的脸，修长,而惨白，如绷带般的泳帽从她的头部,耷拉到她的眼睛，锋利的牙齿从她的口中突出。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"That's the way they do it down in Nashville. At first,I kind of balked at it.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The last time he taught it, the final time he taught it, he never got beyond the first sentence, ? "I went down to the Piraeus." What does it mean?

但上次上课时，也是他最后一次讲这门课时，他根本没离开过第一句，“我南降皮里亚斯“，这句意思为何？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That amount of time is starting to come down. We were also quite surprised when we first started looking at vaccines that they were such a life-saving advance.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

We were going down in the first movement. Now we're going-- It's going up and instead of having just the violins playing we have the trumpets, the heroic trumpets, so it sounds very triumphant.

第一乐章中,我们曾情绪低落,但现在,情绪正高涨,刚才小提琴演奏的部分,换成了小号,豪情万丈的小号,听上去有种胜利的喜悦

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

For the first four months of 2009, new car sales in Britain were down nearly 30 percent, so there is much hope the incentive plan can persuade some to purchase now.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

Sea Island cotton, the kind of cotton grown down there in the Georgia where it was first grown in North America in the Georgia, South Carolina islands, was a kind of long and silky kind of cotton.

乔治亚州,有种海岛棉,最初是生长于美国北部的,在佐治亚州的南卡罗来纳州岛上,最初有一种柔软光洁的棉花

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But recent reports showed U.S.consumer confidence dipping and consumer spending down as government subsidies to purchase new cars have ended and tax credits for first-time home buyers are soon to expire.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

First, it's pointing to the beginning of the list, which initially might be down here at but after a while, might be part way through. And to that, I simply add a halfway point, and then I check.

列表中间的一个部分了，然后我求出列表的中值点,然后看看该点的值是不是等于目标值，如果是的话就完成了，如果不是的话，如果中位值大于我要找的目标值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In fact, there's a very famous book called A Random Walk Down Wall Street, that was one of the first to make this hypothesis.

实际上，有一本很著名的书,叫做在华尔街上随机漫步，这本书是最早提出这种假设的先驱者之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选