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first-foot

/furst-foot/US // ˈfɜrstˈfʊt //UK // mainly Scot //

第一脚,第一英尺,一脚,嫡系

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Also first-footer.

    • : the first person to cross the threshold of a house on New Year's Day.
    • : the first person met after starting out on the day of an important occasion.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to enter first on New Year's Day.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to be the first to enter a house on New Year's Day.

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.

  • The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

  • 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.