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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I know to be a judge, you can't just become a judge, you usually have to practice as a lawyer first.

就我所知，你不能一开始就成为法官，你必须先成为一名律师。

为了更美好的世界 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I was a first year student and happily minding my own business, getting ready to try to pick a summer job.

我当时是一年级，只关心自己的小生活，想好好准备暑假打个工。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

And that's what Neal Cassady was to them at first, a kind of wanderer who wanted to be in their intellectual, but bohemian, circle.

刚开始时尼尔卡萨迪对他们就是这样，想要进入他们这个既有高才智，又放荡不羁的圈子的流浪汉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, if we're trying to figure out the wavelength of a Matsuzaka fastball, we need to consider the velocity first, which is 42 miles per hour.

如果我们尝试计算一个,松阪发出快球的波长，我们首先需要考虑速度，每小时为42英里。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It's the outcome of a race one's running faster than all of the other guys and it's as if to have a career at all one has no choice but to come in first.

这里讲的是一项竞赛的结果,某个人比其他所有人跑的都快,就好像这场竞赛中,除了第一你别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

> Is there a way to get that first percent complete to stay in the same place naturally?

>，有一种方法使它完成的百分比,自然地停在那个相同的地方吗？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But I want to end this first real class with a bit of humility as to what psychologists know and don't know.

最后,作为第一堂教学课的结束,我还是想对心理学家们知道什么,不知道什么,保持一种谦虚的态度

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Small-cap stocks are tougher to price than large-cap stocks, so there's a 4.7% differential, first to third quartile.

小盘股比大盘股更难定价,第一和第三个四分位数的差距有4.7%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Maybe somebody who knows Citizen Kane and would like to have a grade for the first 50 pages.

也许比较清楚了解的同学可以做,需要先读前50页的内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Okay, so given what we've learned so far in the class, a natural first question to ask is: are any of the strategies here?

好,先看看我们都学了哪些知识点,首先想到的是,这里的策略是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

When my wife and I first moved to Amherst, Massachusetts I took a job there once we took some baked goods over to our neighbors.

当我和我妻子刚搬到马萨诸塞的阿默斯特,我曾经在那里工作过,我们给新邻居送了一些烤的小点心

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The first phase required them to identify a customer that was not well-served by Merril Lynch, or perhaps a new customer and to profile those customers in terms of their risk and investment profits.

第一个是要求他们找到,未受到美林良好服务的顾客，或者是一个新顾客,并且根据风险和,投资利润对顾客分组。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Its meaning will not be evident to you on a first reading.

其中意涵在你首度阅读时,并不明显。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well, one way to understand what's good to eat for you is first to know a little bit about what you're eating, and that's where that daily plate exercise came into play.

要想了解吃什么好,方法之一是,首先了解一下你吃的是什么,在这里日常饮食规则将发挥作用

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

They could mean nobody really believes they're going to cease to exist as a person, first possibility. Second possible claim, nobody really believes they're going to undergo the death of their bodies.

可以是说没人真正相信,他们会停止作为一个人存在，这是第一种可能，第二种可能是，没人真正相信,他们会经历肉体的死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选