first-rate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 第一流的， 优秀的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First-rate ice--do put your skates on."
-- "Except you, there's none of the gentlemen first-rate skaters.
-- "And I think you would be a first-rate medium," said Countess Nordston; "there's something enthusiastic in you."
-- Petritsky, whom he liked, was implicated in the affair, and the other culprit was a capital fellow and first-rate comrade, who had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince Kedrov.
-- "Yes; I used to teach in it myself, and do teach still, but we have a first-rate schoolmistress now.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might have been a first-rate surgeon, and made fifty thousand dollars a year.
-- M.D., Ph.D., but a first-rate chemist just the same."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Zossimov is a first-rate fellow!He is making quite a name.
-- He is a capital fellow, brother, first-rate 芒聙娄 in his own way, of course.
-- 'Listen,' he said, 'you're a first-rate fellow, but among your other failings, you're a loose fish, that I know, and a dirty one, too.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Living constant-ly with right-minded and well-informed people, her heart and understanding had received every advantage of disci-pline and culture; and Colonel Campbell's residence being in London, every lighter talent had been done full justice to, 198 Emmaby the attendance of first-rate masters.
-- Mr. Weston seems an excellent creature quite a first-rate favourite with me already, I assure you.
-- 'And, in return for your acknowledging so much, I will do you the justice to say, that you would have chosen for him better than he has chosen for himself. Harriet Smith has some first-rate qualities, which Mrs. Elton is totally without.
-- And yet it was far, very far, from impossible. Was it a new circumstance for a man of first-rate abilities to be captivated by very inferior powers?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I established with myself, on these occasions, the reputation of a first-rate man of business,--prompt, decisive, energetic, clear, cool-headed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I could not see how this could be done in their country, where the smallest wherry was equal to a first-rate man of war among us; and such a boat as I could manage would never live in any of their rivers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a game girl you are, to be such a first-rate sister, Loo!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If there were coal under Sandring-ham, I would open a mine on the lawns, and think it first-rate landscape gardening.
-- And Clifford decided that Hilda, after all, was a decid-edly intelligent woman, and would make a man a first-rate helpmate, if he were going in for politics for example.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pulverous particles got into the dishes, and Society's meats had a seasoning of first-rate footmen.
-- At which identical evening hour and minute, the Patriarch who had floated serenely through the Yard in the forenoon before the harrying began, with the express design of getting up this trustfulness in his shining bumps and silken locks at which identical hour and minute, that first-rate humbug of a thousand guns was heavily floundering in the little Dock of his exhausted Tug at home, and was saying, as he turned his thumbs:'A very bad day's work, Pancks, very bad day's work.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's a first-rate story.'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You could see them first-rate now.
-- 'It's because it warn't INTENDED for any of us to come but Tom,' he says; 'but I begged and begged, and at the last minute she let me come, too; so, com- ing down the riv-er, me and Tom thought it would be a first-rate surprise for him to come here to the house first, and for me to by and by tag along and drop in, and let on to be a stranger.
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