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first adjective—第一 adj (often used) 先 adj 一次 adj 前 adj Examples:Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar—first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)—Guo Songdao or Kuo Sun-tao (1818-1891), China's first imperial commissioner (ambassador) UK and France—reckoned be first or second best (idiom); one of the very best—Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain—Yi Seong-gye (1335-1408), founder and first king of Korean Yi dynasty (1392-1910)—person (first person, second person etc in grammar)—Liaoning, the first aircraft carrier commissioned inthe PLA Navy (commissioned in 2012)—Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) first post-communist president of Russia 1991-1999—First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866—before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved—Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), one of the first modern Japanese novelist—Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor—Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964—burn the books (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)—paper wedding (first year wedding anniversary)—Li Yuan (566-635), first Tang emperor Gaozu, reigned 618-626—Liang Xiang (1919-1989), first governor of Hainan—in classical Chinese, first character of phrase having auxiliary grammatical function—Karl Bernardovich Radek (1995-1939), bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen university, died in prison during Stalin's purges—the pleasure of reading sth for the first time—Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Kuomintang—"Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts—shop around first and you won't get ripped off [idiom.]—venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time [idiom.]— |