first

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /fɜːst/    美 /fɚst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The person or thing in the first position. uncountable
    — He was the first to complete the course.
  2. Time; time granted; respite. obsolete
  3. The first gear of an engine. uncountable
  4. Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence. countable
    — This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.
  5. First base. countable
    — There was a close play at first.
  6. A first-class honours degree. UK,colloquial,countable
    — [Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.
  7. A first-edition copy of some publication. colloquial,countable
  8. A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1. countable,in-compounds,uncountable
    — one forty-first of the estate
动词 v.
  1. To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded. rare,transitive
    — This motion has been firsted and seconded. I desire to third it.
形容词 adj.
  1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest. no-comparative
    — Hancock was first to arrive.
  2. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest. no-comparative
    — Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
  3. Of or belonging to a first family. no-comparative
    — First Cat; First Daughter; First Dog; First Son
  4. Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering. no-comparative
副词 adv.
  1. Before anything else; firstly. not-comparable
    — Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.
  2. For the first time. not-comparable
    — I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.

词形变化

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词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“first, foremost”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *furai, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before”), from *per- (“before; first”), equivalent to fore + -est.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots first (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), vorst (“prince”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Limburgish Vürsch (“prince”), Luxembourgish viischt (“anterior; forward”), Vilamovian fiyśt, fjəšt, fjyśt, fjyšt (“prince”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål først (“first”), Faroese and Icelandic fyrstur (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst, først (“first”), Swedish först (“first”); also Latin prīnceps (“first, foremost; chief”), Greek παρ' (par'), παρά (pará, “despite; less”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀫 (pa-ro, “from”), Albanian parë (“first; chief, main”), Latgalian pyrmais (“first”), Latvian pirmais (“first; foremost”), Lithuanian pirmas (“first; primary”), Bulgarian пъ́рви (pǎ́rvi), пръ́в (prǎ́v, “first”), Czech and Slovak prvý (“first”), Macedonian прв (prv), први (prvi, “first”), Polish piersy, pierwszy, pirszy (“first”), Russian пе́рвый (pérvyj, “first”), Serbo-Croatian пр̑вӣ, pȓvī (“first”), Slovene prvi (“first”), Armenian հարավ (harav, “south”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (paᵘruua, “before, first”), Tocharian A pärwat (“first”), Tocharian B parwe (“first”), Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva, “before”).
词源 2
From Middle English first, furst, fyrst, from Old English fyrst, fierst, first (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”), from Proto-Germanic *frestaz, *fristiz, *frestą (“date, appointed time”), from Proto-Indo-European *pres-, *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate with North Frisian ferst, frest (“period, time”), German Frist (“period, deadline, term”), Swedish frist (“deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit”), Icelandic frestur (“period”). See also frist.
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