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first-born

/furst-bawrn/US // ˈfɜrstˈbɔrn //

长子,嫡长子,嫡系,嫡出

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : first in the order of birth; eldest.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a firstborn child.
    • : a first result or product.

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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.

  • The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

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

  • 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.

  • To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.

  • 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.