first course

基本解釋

What would you like for your first course?
您第一道菜想點什么？
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.
當(dāng)我看到現(xiàn)代正經(jīng)受著苦難的人類，最終從我們的手掌心逃脫時，就好像品嘗了第一道盛宴的美味之后，接著剩下的佳肴都從你面前統(tǒng)統(tǒng)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，在今晚的宴會上，薩科齊總統(tǒng)不僅會在上第一道菜的時候在場，晚宴結(jié)束的時候他仍將在座。”

"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,那個時候,這可能是最早開設(shè)的一門課程,在國內(nèi)的工程學(xué)方向,它就是一八五二年開始講授的土木工程,甚至是耶魯自己的學(xué)生都不知道這些,他們所在的學(xué)院有著,如此獨特而悠久的歷史
耶魯公開課 - 生物醫(yī)學(xué)工程探索課程節(jié)選
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世紀(jì)七八十年代時開始教這門課,當(dāng)時文學(xué)理論非常流行。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

My first encounter with the concept of market efficiency dates back to my first course in economics.
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