It was the first time a presidential election was held on the same day in all parts of the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

It's first of all a depiction of an underworld, and so it provides Milton with an important Christian representation of a hell.

它首先是对地狱的一个描述，它为弥尔顿提供了,一个重要的基督教式的地狱的描绘。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

First of all, try to be a part of a small group who's also in the same process and the same journey

首先，尝试着去加入一个同样使用这个方法的小团体，

学第二外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And that's probably the simplest of all of them." The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

First of all, he wanted to imbed in his upcoming high potentials the user application of really advanced investment theory.

首先，他希望,即将到来的潜力人才,学会运用,先进的投资理论。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Still,with all these difficulties, ten-thousand troops made it to Washington in the first few weeks of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Soon we'll know. First of all, we'd better say, as is already clear from what we've been quoting, language is not quite Saussurian.

我们很快就会知道，首先，从引文中很容易看出，语言不是索绪尔式的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Kirsten Kennedy,housing director at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,says all first-year undergraduates there have to live in a dorm.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

First of all, it's clear from the Pythagoras' theorem that a is the square root of ^2 + ^2.

首先,根据毕达哥拉斯定理,勾股定理在西方被称为"毕达哥拉斯定理"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

First,Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek was trying to organize all of China under the control of his Nationalist forces.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

First of all, as you can see by the trajectory here, it's very conjunct, right, all neighboring notes here.

首先,你可以通过这里的轨迹看到,这是明显的级进,全是相邻的音符

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

SpongeBob won the hearts of children all over America during the first year of the cartoon series on the Nicklelodeon cable television network.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Which actually is son of Bonacci which is the name of his father who was apparently a very friendly guy. First of all, does anyone know what a Fibonacci number is? Wow.

斐波纳契，它是波纳契的儿子,波纳契是它父亲的名字,听上去是个友好的男人不是吗,谁知道斐波纳契数列？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

First of all, a lot of people don't seem to even grasp that basic point that you buy stocks for the dividends.

首先,很多人不明确这一基本点,买股票就是为了股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Four babies were born to infected mothers, but all of these babies died during their first year.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Let me say a little bit,first of all, about the way scholars have categorized the history of Greece.

首先,我要说一下,关于,学者是如何划分希腊历史的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Well,first of all, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth presidents of the United States were the same person.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

We're going to consider first of all the view of the gods, The view of humans and the view of the world: three distinct categories.

首先我们来考虑对神的看法，对人类及世界的看法：,三种截然不同的类别。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Then they began to die. In some of the gold centers, big mining companies bought up all the land from those who first claimed it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

And this means for Hobbes, first of all, adopting his book as the authoritative teaching on moral and political doctrine in the universities.

鉴于此，霍布斯的首要任务，是把他的著作作为权威的教学方式,在大学里讲授道德和政治学说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now,as of July first, all new loans will go though the direct loan program only.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

By "difficult," it is meant, I think, well, first of all that it is in some sense set apart from common speech, as a specialized and highly self-conscious use of language.

艰深“的意思，我认为，首先，某种程度上它是和平时谈话有所不同的，专业性极强，对语言运用自知也很高。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Of course,with signers,their first language has no written system at all, just hand gestures.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

I think, first of all, those are actually erroneous views of American history.

我认为，首先，这些观点实际上是对美国历史错误的看法。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

First of all they are not two different tribes. We are one people.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

And I know that everybody in this room, first of all, belongs here.

我知道在这间教室的每个同学，首先，都属于这里。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

First of all, how Pig Latin got its name is a mystery.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

First of all, happiness is a positive sum game-- it's not a zero sum game.

首先，快乐是正和游戏-,不是零和游戏。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选