first thing

名词 n. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The basic idea of how to do something.
    — I would help you, but I don't know the first thing about gardening.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, thing.
    — I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
副词 adv.
  1. Early in the morning. not-comparable
    — I'll meet you first thing at the station.
  2. Straight away, very soon. not-comparable
    — Some of 'em said that when a boy had been away from home a couple of years he ought to want to see his folks the first thing.

词形变化

first things plural
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