"First off,there is the infectious disease risk because if you use human blood there's a lot of transmissible diseases.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

First there is the comparatively lowly kind which turns for support to the simple emotions and is of a definitely personal nature.

首先是相对低端的一种,只是支撑起简单的情感,这是一种明确的人类本性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He says in the middle of the poem on page 225: First there's the children's house of make-believe, Some shattered dishes underneath a pine, The playthings in the playhouse of the children.

他在225页这首诗的中间说到：,首先是假扮的孩子们的房间，松树下的一碟碟食物，那些玩具室里孩子们的玩具。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He began to turn over in the air when his chute opened, and there were problems with the lines at first.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

First there is a preamble. That's found in every one.

第一个序言，每个条约都能找到。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There are worries that the crisis could be the first of more to come in other parts of the world.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

Well, first there's a distinction, a distinction between real dreams versus sleep thought.

首先，我们要区分，真正的梦和半睡半醒的想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Eartha Kitt said the First Lady asked her why she thought there was so much youth crime in America.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

At first there was doubt and controversy, which has completely gone away, as more and more examples of this writing have become available and scholars are now able, by and large, to be confident that they know what these things say.

开始的时候还充斥着质疑的声音,而现在已经无可争议,因为已经有,越来越多这样的文字出土,学者们现在,对辨认出这些东西的含义,相当有自信了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Kirsten Kennedy,housing director at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,says all first-year undergraduates there have to live in a dorm.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Here's what I do. I change-- oops! Let me do that this way-- I change last to here, and keep first there, and I throw away all of that. All right?

接下来，我来改过来,此时这里是last，first位置没变,把这些都擦掉，好？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It was there that young Billie first heard the records of famous black American blues artists of the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

First there was the observation by Michelson who back in the late 1880s had done very precise interferal metric measurements of the hydrogen lines and had observed that the 656 nanometer line 3 associated with the transition of n equals 3 to n equals 2 was, in fact, a doublet.

首先是麦克逊,在1880年底的观察,他以公制单位对氢原子的光谱线,作了准确的，无其他因素干扰的，测量,发现当n值由3变为2时,会同时得到波长为656纳米的谱线3,实际上是有两条线。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

About two hundred farmers signed up for the insurance within the first two weeks that it was being offered there.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Well, of course, it's because he thinks, first of all, there's a soul and it will survive and it's immortal.

当然,这是因为他认为,首先,灵魂是存在的,在肉体死后仍会继续存在,而且灵魂是不朽的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there are five groups that should be vaccinated first.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

I had gotten in there from a tough high school I was the first to go from my high school.

我是从一所非常严格的高中考入那里的,我是我们高中第一个被普林斯顿大学录取的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But among those remaining was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

That's just the simple sequential sense of "first," the first that comes before second, third and fourth; but there's something more radical here than the ordinal or sequential sense of "first."

这只是“先“表示顺序的简单含义,先于第二，第三，第四的那个“先“，但这里,“先“除了表示顺序的意思外还有更激进的含义“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was there he first developed two ideas that were important for the rest of his life.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

There's still a lot more of the text and so that first fragment a part, but I immediately begin to form an opinion about this part with respect to an imagined or supposed whole.

文本中的很多还没有读，但是那第一个片段成为了一个局部，但是我立即对这个局部有了自己的想法,并且开始设想全文。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But he never lived there. John and Abigail Adams became the building's first family in eighteen hundred.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Just the first one or more generally the address of the first one and then, man, I'll just figure it out from there where the rest of the letters are because by definition of a string, they're back to back to back.

只需要第一个字节的地址,然后，我可以指出之后的,剩下的字母,因为通过一个字符串的定义，它们是紧邻的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One of Mr.Olmsted's first projects at Biltmore was to plant and grow the millions of flowers that would be used for the gardens there.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

When Ginsberg first read Howl, he was on stage, and there was a little bathroom.

当金斯堡自己第一次在台上读《嚎叫》的时候，那有一个卫生间。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"What I was really surprised by when I first joined was how many people were there who I knew.'" Evan Falchuk is a lawyer.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

For example, that embryo that I showed on one of the first slides where there's clearly a head region and a tail region.

比如我在第一张幻灯片里展示的那种胚胎,已经有了明显的头部和尾部

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Why,if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would want you to decide which one would fly first so he could win money.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

He's the one who probably would be the first to tell you there is no Santa Claus.

他会是第一个想跟你说,世上不存在圣诞老公公的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There's a reason why the first attempt to even write about international law comes at this period.

这也就是为什么在这个时期,会有人在历史上第一次尝试撰写国际法

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选