"You know, the judge sentenced me here, so my first thoughts were kinda, you know,uh,this is kinda, Shakespeare's not my thing.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Let's take the first thing first, the radical theology. I'm only able to talk about a small component of Milton's theological daring here.

先来谈激进的神学观点，在这里我只能,谈及弥尔顿神学上的大胆突破的一个小小的组成部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Your first thing is responsibility to fulfill your rights to your people, to your culture, to your family, to your government.

你的首要任务是履行义务而不是行使权利,对人民，对文化圈，对家庭，对政府都是如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But,she later woke up. The first thing she asked for was a pair of scissors so she could start another paper creation.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The first thing I have to do is give you understanding of the physics of the gas discharge tube.

首先要做的就是让你们理解,气体放电管的物理学原理。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It was huge! The first thing that came to my mind was actually that's a lot of food!"

VOA: special.2009.11.23

So the first thing we'll do is, we'll print the element, in this case it will be a list right? Because it's a list with two lists in it.

因此这儿我们要做的第一件事，就是要显示元素，在这儿元素就是数组了对不对？,因为这个数组包含了两个数组。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"I suppose the first really significant thing that the world heard about was chimpanzees using and making tools.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

First thing is that they're like each other in many important ways, although obviously with differences from place to place.

首先它们大体上很相似,但每个殖民地也有其独特的特点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I never really realized that that meant that every living thing really came as an evolutionary development of the first seeds of life."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

It's often put in terms of the relationship between the part and the whole. I approach a text and of course the first thing I read is a phrase or a sentence.

经常可以理解为,局部和整体的关系，我看到文本后,首先读到的东西理所当然是一个短语或一个句子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

So, the first thing we do is put two electrons between h and c, and then two electrons between c and n.

那么，我们先在氢和碳之间放两个电子，然后在碳和氮之间再放两个电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The first thing a passenger sees on the Cape May coast is the area's famous lighthouse.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

The first thing they said was, "You have no board of directors," because I was the board. I was the whole board.

他们首先提出的是，你们没有董事会“,因为我就是董事会，董事会里就我一个人。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

"In the end,schools ought to do what's the right thing for their students, first and foremost."

VOA: special.2010.10.07

So the first thing we're going to do today is look at a different form of competition which is called Bertrand competition.

所以今天我们要做的第一件事,就是来学习一个不同形式的竞争,叫伯川德竞争

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

They're in a -the first thing to understand is that -I start out by telling you the story of the goldsmith banker.

它们...,首先要弄明白的是,在一开始我讲了金匠银行家的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The first thing they did was to write an advertisement to be published in newspapers.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

You sort of expect something like, "In the beginning, God created heaven and earth," Like this was the first thing to happen in time.

你会猜想这样的事情，比如，“开始的时候，上帝创造了天和地“,就好像这是最初发生的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Well,the first thing to know is that prices are different from school to school.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The first thing you probably want to accomplish or at least one thing that seems easy is find the graphic of the cookie sheet that you happen to want for this project.

你第一件要完成的任务,或者说你最起码要做的，是绘出,这个工程里面出现的各式各样的饼干人物图。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The first thing that struck Georgiana when entering the laboratory was the hot furnace.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The first thing he did is he killed every product line the company was working on.

他会做的第一件事就是,停止每一条公司正在运作的生产线。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

The first thing he did was buy a costly new car.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Now, the first thing to notice is that to get the conclusion we need all three premises.

现在 首先要注意的是,只有三个前提全部成立才能得出结论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Naturally the first thing I did was plan a trip.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

First thing you've got to do is, realize that some of these things are not God-given.

首先你要做的是,意识到这些并不是上帝赐予的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So the first thing we got to do is sort of lock on to the tonic.

我们来听一下，我们要做的第一件是是锁定主音。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选