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first lady

/furst-leee-dee/US // ˈfɜrst ˈlei di //

第一夫人,第一位女士,一夫人,大夫人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural first la·dies.

    • : Often First Lady . the wife of the U.S. president, or the wife of a current governor or mayor.
    • : Often First Lady . the wife of the head of any country: the First Lady of Brazil.
    • : the foremost woman in any art, profession, or the like: Helen Hayes, the first lady of American theater.

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Examples

  • Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

  • In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

  • But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • He sees himself as the first Muslim president of all Europe.

  • This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

  • He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.

  • And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.

  • Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

  • In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.