He will show them that he is true to his words.

Well, in the first place he has all the right qualifications.

噢，首先，他符合一切条件。

In the first place you are not old and in the second place you are a very attractive man

首先你不老，其次你是个富有魅力的男人。

The emphasis is swinging away from simply finding cures for illness to ways of preventing illness in the first place

重点正从简单地对症下药转移到先期预防的方法上来。

I'm amazed they had the cheek to ask in the first place

我真惊讶他们当初竟然有脸问。

It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place

最初是一颗流星促使我从事天文学。

I should never have taken that job in the first place.

我当初就不该接受那份工作。

I hear an echo of the thinking that got us into this mess in the first place

我听到有人重提那个最先使我们陷入这一困境的想法。

I still don't understand why you chose that name in the first place.

我仍不明白，你究竟为什么取了这么个名字。

She could not have taken these massive doses orally. In the first place, she did not have enough pills.

她不可能口服这么大的剂量，因为她根本没有足够的药丸了。

They finished in joint first place.

他们获得并列第一。

Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

尽管如此,琼斯还是代表了一小部分能够进入更多精英大学的第一代学生,这些精英大学强有力的经济援助计划和第一代学生的高毕业率非常有名。

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( 81 percent).

例如,北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校只承认其第一代学生的毕业率"远低于"所有四年内毕业的学生的毕业率，即81%。

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

田纳西州立大学的总体毕业率只有39%,但至少第一代学生和同龄人的成绩差距较小。

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient numbers — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

联邦法律规定,高等教育机构必须报告毕业率,但这些报告通常只包括佩尔受助者的数据,而不一定有针对第一代学生的比率。

Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

耶鲁大学第一代毕业生克里斯蒂安·巴斯克斯也是个例外，他的成功故事使他与Nijay等学生完全不同。

Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States.

他们中很多人在各自家庭中都是出生在美国的第一代人。

Students are placed in small groups with counselors ( trained seniors on campus); they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students ( the latter being one of the most common programs for students).

将学生和辅导员（学校里训练有素的高年级学生）放在一组，学生就可以接触到文化和种族亲密团体、辅导中心，还可以接受专门针对第一代学生进行的暑期培训。暑期培训是学生最常见的课程之一。

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.

作为南方大学中的佼佼者,该校第一代学生的毕业率仅为16%,尽管其整体毕业率为71%。

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。