Nelson Jackson and his friend, Sewall Crocker, were honored as the first to cross the United States in an automobile.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

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

So in that sense, they should be the first to take action, no question.

所以从这一点来说，毫无疑问他们应该首先采取行动。

全球变暖和发达国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The study is said to be the first to examine in detail measurements of bone strength instead of bone density.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

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

She says the study was the first to compare the economic effects of different kinds of smoking bans.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Some scholars have even speculated that Christians may have been the first to do this, because they were arguing with their friends,the Jews.

有些学者甚至推测,基督教徒是首先这样做的，因为他们在和犹太朋友争辩时。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Little Delaware is called the First State because it was the first state the first to approve the new United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Levi-Strauss is repudiating the father and, in repudiating the father, showing himself to fall into the very mythic pattern that Freud had been the first to analyze.

列维否认了父亲，在否认父亲的同时，也掉入了,弗洛伊德首创的神话分析模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Several people are credited with being the first to use microfinance as a tool for social improvement.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

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

British climbers were the first to try to reach the place called "the top of the world."

VOA: special.2011.05.10

He was the first to give some kind of conceptual rigor to the vocabulary of political life.

他是第一位,加入某种精准概念,到政治生活词汇中的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Historians say the Italian scientist and mathematician may not have been the first to get a good look at the moon and planets.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

If you read Walt Whitman, you will see much of the same ethos So, Ginsberg is not the first to do this in the American tradition, for sure, but it's a very important part of what the Beats revive.

如果你读过沃尔特惠特曼，你会发现类似的思潮,所以金斯堡肯定不是第一个在美国传统上这么做的，但它是使垮掉的一代复兴的重要部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

It turns out that we are far from the first people, although it felt exciting, we did not discover this for the first time here today. In fact, J.J. Balmer, JJ Balmer who was a school teacher in the 1800s, was the first to describe these lines that could be seen from hydrogen.

实际上，它第一次被发现已经是在很早之前了，虽然我们觉得很激动，但我们,并不是第一次发现这个的，事实上，一个19世纪的老师,是第一个在氢原子中发现这些谱线的人。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

World War Two ended. Enrico Fermi had been the first to use a neutron to produce the radioactive change of one element to another.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Nonetheless, The Faerie Queenecan be said, however strangely, to be the first great poetic celebration in English of the institution of marriage.

然而无论《仙后》多么与众不同，它仍可被称为，第一部伟大的有关婚姻的,英文诗歌体盛典。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But that college was the first to officially agree to receive support under the Morrill Act.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

So, the first obvious one is to take V1 to V2 first with p constant. So take this path here.

从初态到末态可以有无数种路径2,甚至像这样，我们只研究两种。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The Republicans were a new party, and Lincoln was the first to be elected president.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

It still seems wrong in a way that it doesn't seem wrong in the first case to turn, you say.

反正就是不对,而在第一种情况，这样做就是对的，是吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The nineteen thirty Academy Awards were also the first to be broadcast on live radio.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Now, your temptation is to keep the first answer because you know energy is not going to be negative.

你肯定想保留正根,因为你知道能量不会是负值

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

She was the first to fly from Mexico City to New York City, without stopping.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Indeed, to get at that question, the first thing we're going to have to think about is what are we?

事实上，要解决这个问题，我们首先要考虑的是，我们是什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The study is described as the first to demonstrate the indirect spread of happiness.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

The way we did this was to coax embryonic stem cells first to develop into the surface layer.

我们是这么做的,先诱导胚胎干细胞,发育成外胚层。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

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