Now the word "first" begins to take on a much bigger range of significances than we might at first think.

现在看来，“初/先“一词,比我们起先所想的有更加重大的意义。

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First, though, I need to say a couple of words about the word chastity as I've been using it throughout the discussion so far of Comusboth today and Monday.

首先我要就贞节这个词说几句,鉴于我在今天和周一课上有关《科玛斯》的,讨论中一直在使用这个词。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now this is what Derrida is deliberately struggling with in this first paragraph: an "event" , if this loaded word did not entail a meaning thought to reduce or to suspect.

这就是德里达,在第一段着力解决的问题：,一个事件，加引号的，…,如果这个词的意思没有,减少或怀疑的意图。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Stubborn is not a good first date word, but okay.

第一次约会用固执这个词似乎不太好吧

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And what we find, the first example of a Bronze Age-- and I use the word civilization now for the first time, because before the Bronze Age-- there is nothing that we would define as civilization.

我们发现的第一个文明出现在青铜时代,也是我第一次用文明这个词,因为在青铜时代之前,没有任何东西能称之为文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Colony is a Latin word ultimately for colonia and the Roman colonies were, first of all,garrisons that they planted in land they had conquered to keep the people quiet.

殖民地是拉丁词Colony的衍生,对于古罗马的殖民地来说,首先,派兵驻守占领的城市,震慑当地民众

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