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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cavalcade set off preceded by huntsmen, and armed with first-rate rifles, followed by a pack of pointers barking joyously as they bounded through the bushes.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a first-rate life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- coal and sulphur for powder, mercury and nitric acid for the fulminate, and lead for the shot, and the captain will make us first-rate guns."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll find that a first-rate stool, Sir, take my word for it.'
-- Well!In that place (which is the next room) there are decanters of wine, and all that sort of thing, set out as grand as if Kit and his friends were first-rate company; and there is little Jacob, walking, as the popular phrase is, into a home-made plum-cake, at a most surprising pace, and keeping his eye on the figs and oranges which are to follow, and making the best use of his time, you may believe.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here's a first-rate seaman, Cap'n Smollett, sails the blessed ship for us.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thirty first-rate pictures, uniformly framed, separated by bright drapery, ornamented the walls, which were hung with tapestry of severe design.
-- "Certainly you are right, sir, and your Captain is a first-rate man.
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