first course

基本解释

What would you like for your first course?
您第一道菜想点什么？
When I see the temporal suffering of humans who finally escape us, I feel as if I had been allowed to taste the first course of a rich banquet and then denied the rest.
当我看到现代正经受着苦难的人类，最终从我们的手掌心逃脱时，就好像品尝了第一道盛宴的美味之后，接着剩下的佳肴都从你面前统统拿走！
"I am confident President Sarkozy will not be here for the first course of our dinner, but will still be sitting as we complete our dinner this evening, " said Mr. Brown.
布朗：“我相信，在今晚的宴会上，萨科齐总统不仅会在上第一道菜的时候在场，晚宴结束的时候他仍将在座。”

"I am confident President Sarkozy will not be here for the first course of our dinner, but will still be sitting as we complete our dinner this evening,"
In 1852, around that time, this might have been the first course that was offered in engineering in the country: it was taught at Yale in civil engineering in 1852 even Yale students don't know this; what a long, distinguished history of engineering that their own institution has.
在一八五二年,那个时候,这可能是最早开设的一门课程,在国内的工程学方向,它就是一八五二年开始讲授的土木工程,甚至是耶鲁自己的学生都不知道这些,他们所在的学院有着,如此独特而悠久的历史
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I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.
我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。
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My first encounter with the concept of market efficiency dates back to my first course in economics.
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