| 词组 | first - firstly |
| 释义 | first - firstly The first thing, event, or person of a particular kind is the one that comes before all the others. The President went on the air to make his first public statement about Watergate. ...the first man in space. If you want to emphasize that a thing, event, or person is the first one of their kind, you can put 'very' in front of first. The very first thing that happened was that I got ravenously hungry. ◊ 'first' used as an adverb If an event happens before other events, you say that it happens first. Ralph spoke first. When people get their newspaper, which page do they read first? You do not say that something happens 'firstly'. ◊ used as sentence adverbs You can use first or firstly to introduce the first point in a discussion, the first of a series of questions or instructions, or the first item in a list. Four tendencies began to converge. First, there was a growing awareness of the true dimensions of the threat. There are two reasons. Firstly I have no evidence that the original document has been destroyed. If you want to emphasize that an item is the first one you are going to mention, you can say first of all. There are, first of all, those who have been brought up with little confidence in their own judgement. First of all dig a little hole. Note that you do not say 'firstly of all'. ◊ 'at first' When you are contrasting feelings or actions at the beginning of an event with ones that came later, you say at first. At first I was reluctant. At first I thought that the shop was empty, then from behind one of the counters a man appeared. Note that you do not use 'firstly' in sentences like these. |
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