The incident stuck in my mind because it was the first example I had seen of racism in that country.

那个事件令我难以忘怀，因为那是我看到的那个国家的第一例种族歧视事件。

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When my father showed up the day of the wedding, it was the first time I had seen him since our reunion at Boulevard.

布尔瓦餐厅和父亲重聚之后，我们就没有再见过面。 婚礼那天，我才又一次见到他。

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"It was the first time I had seen any real evidence that he was a thief at heart," Mr. McMasters wrote.

“这是我第一次看到了一些证据，证明他在内心就是一个小偷，”麦克·马斯特写到。

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Unaware of exactly what it was, I had first seen this cantata-cum-ballet in 1970 at the National Arts Center in Ottawa and been awestruck by the music, the dancing, and the monastic chanting of the earthy love poems.

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It may have happened before, but this was the first time I had seen the Yahoo editors exercise anything approaching discretion and human decency.

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It was the first time I had seen a dead body.

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