A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school — Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

让Nijay没有意识到的是，他的学校田纳西州立大学第一代学生的毕业率仅为29%。

Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans ： first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.

Nijay代表了一个不断壮大的庞大美国群体：第一代大学生。他们在入学时没有做好准备或落后于其他人。

The concept of jailbreaking dates back to July 2007, when it was applied the phone with games and other applications not licensed by Apple Inc.

“越狱”这种说法最早出现于2007年7月，第一代iPhone上市的第一个月。最初的越狱只是为了添加个性铃音，后来这一做法迅速被普及，成为破解苹果手机程序、安装各类未授权游戏和应用程序的主要手段。

Chelsea Jones, who now directs student programming at I'm First, was a first-generation college student at Howard.

切尔西·琼斯是霍华德大学的第一代大学生,现在在I'm First组织指导学生编程。

"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

鲁宾诺夫说："为这一小部分人提供这些机会的不只有精选的精英院校。"他补充说,大多数第一代本科生倾向于选择在线课程、两年制大学和通勤公立学校。

In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its first professional writer and publisher, famous and beloved, who had led an explosion in both the publication of novels and their readership and whose characters — from Oliver Twist to Tiny Tim — were held up as moral touchstones ．

1870年,狄更斯去世,全世界都为他哀悼,认为他是第一位受人爱戴的著名职业作家兼出版商；他在小说出版界和读者中引起了轰动，他的人物角色，像奥利弗·特维斯特、小蒂姆，被视为道德的试金石。

Books always came first.

书总是第一位的。

So what makes a good marriage? Faithfulness comes out top of the list

那么，是什么造就了美满的婚姻呢？结果表明忠诚是第一位的。

The first musher, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night ．

第一位叫香农的狗拉雪橇驾驶者在尼纳纳的火车上取了药,然后行驶了一整夜。

She always puts her children first.

她总是把子女放在第一位。

She became an Arizona state senator and, in 1981, the first woman to join the U.S ． Supreme Court ．

1981年,她成为亚利桑那州参议员,也是第一位加入美国最高法院的女性。

She was the first candidate to speak out for strong pre-K programming.

她是第一位公开支持加强幼儿园前教育的候选人。

Larvian women. Meanwhile, rose from 28th place in 1914 to become the tallest in the world a century later, with an average height of 169.8cm.

与此同时，拉脱维亚女性的平均身高为169。8厘米，从1914年的第28位升至一个世纪后的世界第一位。

The first Slav pope, John Paul, said that providence had chosen him to proclaim the spiritual unity of Europe

第一位斯拉夫教皇约翰·保罗声称上天选择了他来昭示欧洲的精神统一。

Smoking is the biggest preventable cause of death and disease

在可以预防的引发死亡和疾病的因素当中，吸烟排在第一位。

The H Company is the largest domestic manufacturer in chlorine dioxide generator industry. Through decades of dramatic development, it market share of low-end chlorine dioxide generator has ranked at first place in China.

H公司是目前国内二氧化氯发生器行业最大的生产制造商，经过十几年的快速发展，其在中低端二氧化氯发生器市场的占有率位于全国第一位。

Somebody has to think for the child and put him first.

必须有人替孩子着想，把他放在第一位。

At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold ．

在北京奥运会上,她成为第一位获得100米奥运金牌的牙买加女子,从而扫除了人们对她能否稳定发挥的怀疑。

He became Jamaica's first Olympic gold medallist when he won the 400m title in 1948

他1948年赢得400米冠军，成为牙买加第一位奥运会金牌得主。

Ludacris and the former CEO of Bank of America Ken Lewis are alumni of my college, as well as VICE's first female editor-in-chief, Ellis Jones.

卢达克里斯和美国银行前任首席执行官肯·刘易斯，以及《VICE》的第一位女主编埃利斯·琼斯都是我的大学校友