He was first elected in 1989 to complete the term of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who died in office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

He was responsible for writing the first justification for an armed rebellion against a legitimate monarch, the first to publish such a work in, essentially, all of Europe.

他是第一个为反对合法君主的武装叛乱,写辩护书的人，也是第一个在全欧洲将其发表的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And John was in his first year of school, and he decided to join the running club, and we met there.

约翰当时是一年级，他决定参加我们的俱乐部，我们就这样认识了。

在马拉松认识的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He was first inducted into the Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety-seven with his band Crosby,Stills and Nash.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

because he viewed his first responsibility was to make sure the country is as safe as possibly can be.

因为他认为自己的首要任务是,让国家尽可能地,处在安全之中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Hamilton was never president. But he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

So he said, I guess maybe it is my idea I was the first person to write it up.

我斗胆以为这也许是我的想法,有可能真是我第一个将其记录

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

In fact, I don't know if in the news the pioneer in this is a man named Judah Folkman, who is a surgeon who first speculated that this was important, and sadly he died on Monday, but had a dramatic impact on our understanding of how cancers develop in people and new approaches.

实际上,我不清楚这个新闻中提到的人,是不是犹太?福克曼,这个领域的先驱,他是个外科医生,最先提出了这个重要的理论,不过不幸的是他在本周一去世了,他让我们对癌症有了新认识,带给我们治疗癌症的新思路

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In his inaugural speech, Van Buren noted that he was the first American born after the revolution to become president.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He's a very good player, yeah, but for the first two or three years that he was at United, he hardly played at all.

他是个很好的球员，但是在前两三年，在联队，他基本不上场。

知道朴智星吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He was honored first as a member of the Yardbirds, then with Cream, then as a solo performer in two thousand.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

He was sent to Athens " to study at The Academy, the first university, spoke about and established by Plato.

他被送到雅典,就读于，“柏拉图学院，首座大学，由柏拉图建立与主讲。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He said the first great fact was that laws were not necessary to keep slavery out of California and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

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

He said he would get it, but first he wanted to know how big she thought the moon was.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

He was an orphan, he had no family, and he was on his first long voyage at sea.

他是孤儿，没有家人，这是他首次出海远航。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In July of nineteen sixty-nine he was almost speechless when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He was the first generation to go to college, grew up in the farms, and as such, he was very skilled with machining.

他是家里面第一个大学生，出生在农场，他很精通机械。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Many years later, Wiley Post would say that first airplane was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

The first thing he did is he killed every product line the company was working on.

他会做的第一件事就是,停止每一条公司正在运作的生产线。

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

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Because here he was for the first time in-- well, since my wife and I were together-- someone else is getting much more attention than I was, no matter how much I cried.

因为这是妻子和我在一起后-,第一次有人夹在中间-,另一个人比我获得更多的关注，不管我怎么哭。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The next year he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

And he was the first one to bump into the land, and he was like,

他是第一个发现这块陆地的人，然后说：

向哥伦布学习 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He made his own breakfast for the first time in many years, he was still angry with his father.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

He wrote that for that. His great friend was Bernard Herrmann, who wrote the stories for the first two movies.

他最好的朋友是,伯纳德·，赫尔曼，他写了,前两个电影的故事。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But he was also right that it would be the first step toward ending slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

First he was touched and now he touches.

开始时他被轻轻的触动，后来他开始触动别人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And he began to write back, first to his fiancee who quickly became his wife, Mary, and he was really worried about all the slaves he owned.

随后他就开始写回信,首先给他的未婚妻玛丽,不久便结婚了,并且他对他所拥有的奴隶充满忧虑

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选