She was a snob of the first order.

她是天字第一号势利鬼。

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it even looks like the Saturn V — eye candy of the first order.

甚至它和土星Ⅴ长得很像——第一指令的花瓶角色。

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This is why the looming fiscal problems are a potential crisis of the first order.

这就是为什么正在逼近的财政问题是一个初级的潜在危机。

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

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The first order of business for the founder of a city, any city, is the oversight of education.

城市创建者的,首要任务，任何城市皆然，就是要监督教育。

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Electrons will occupy orbitals in order of ascending energy, occupying the lowest energy first and up.

电子是按其能量递增顺序,排布在轨道上的，首先占满第一级，即最低能级。

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Her later albums provided consistent evidence that she is a vocalist of the first order, though her songwriting is not always as engaged.

NEWYORKER: Revelation Road

Highsmith's books are page-turners of the first order, reflecting Highsmith's unsparing vision of human nature that makes her a ghoulish treat for grownups.

FORBES: A dark view

Even the old faces being returned to parliament are singing a new tune: many promise, as a matter of the first order, to change the electoral system.

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