She first came into contact with Japanese culture last year.
彼女は去年初めて日本文化に触れた。
This is the first time I've seen such a dreadful movie.
こんなに恐い映画は初めてだ。
Of course I apologised, saying that the first appointment had priority.
勿論最初の約束優先ということで謝ったわ。
Tom met Mary for the first time three years ago.
トムは3年前に初めてメアリーに会った。
I wasn't able to believe him at first.
私は初めは彼の言葉が信じられなかった。
It was exciting for me to go to the capital for the first time.
私にとって初めての上京はわくわくすることでした。
Is this your first time to eat Japanese food?
日本料理は初めてですか。
At first I felt a bit too shy to speak to her.
初めのうち、私は少し恥ずかしくて彼女に話し掛けられなかった。
It was clear that Hawking would live longer than was first thought.
ホーキングが、最初に考えていたよりも長く生きることは明らかであった。
I mean, I was spellbound the whole time.
最初から最後までうっとりしてた。
The experiment failed in the initial stages.
実験は最初の階段でつまずいた。
With most of the arts, if you don't get the basics down properly then it is difficult to acquire further skills.
大抵の学芸は、最初に基礎をしっかりやっておかないと、その先スムーズに身に付けることができません。
He was a writer who had never lived up to the promise of his first novel.
彼は最初の小説が抱かせた期待にまだ応えていない作家だった。
I refused at first.
初めは断ったんです。
As a proud new father, I gave my first child plenty of books.
得意顔の新しい父親として、私は最初の子供に本をたくさん与えた。
Give this ticket to whoever comes first.
誰にも最初に来た人にこのチケットをあげなさい。
But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.
Early education for children usually begins at home.
子供の初期の教育はふつう家庭で始まる。
It's the first time he has run across French.
彼はフランス語との最初の出会いです。
I was called into the office first.
私が最初にオフィスに入るように呼ばれた。
She went to Paris for the first time.
彼女は初めてパリへ行った。
This theory originated with a twenty-eight year old physicist.
その理論は２８才の物理学者が初めて提唱した。
She didn't like the horse at first.
彼女は最初その馬が気に入らなかった。
At first, I didn't like him.
初めは彼のことが好きではなかった。
Why don't you carry out what you've set out to do?
初心を貫徹したらどうですか。
Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.
It was the first of the one thousand cranes that Sadako had to make.
その鶴は、禎子が折らなければならない千羽鶴の最初の一羽だった。
I visited New York for the first time.
私は初めてニューヨークを訪れた。
He soon grows tired of a thing regardless of how much he liked it to begin with.
彼はすぐに物事に飽きてしまう。初めにそれを愛する烈しさにも関わらず。
She was discouraged from publishing her first novel.
彼女は初めての小説を出版するのを思いとどまった。
I could understand the first few sentences, but the rest of his speech was all Greek to me.
彼の演説は最初のところが少し理解できたが、残りはちんぷんかんぷんだった。
This is the coffee shop I first met my wife in.
ここが、妻と初めて会った喫茶店です。
Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity. Those are values that we all share. And whi
