• adj. 最重要的；最先的
• adv. 首先；居于首位地

來自古英語formest, 最早的。來自PIE*pre-mo, 最早的，*pre-, 在先，詞源同fore, *mo, 最高級(jí)后綴，詞源同intimate, ultimate. -est, 最高級(jí)后綴。因此，該詞實(shí)際上為雙重最高級(jí)形式，后拼寫受fore,most影響。比較former, first.

foremost

foremost: see former

foremost (adj.)

Middle English formest, from Old English fyrmest, formest "earliest, first, most prominent," from Proto-Germanic *furmista-/*frumista- (related to Old English fruma "beginning"), from PIE *pre-mo-, suffixed (superlative) form of root *per- (1) "forward, through; before; first" (see per) + additional superlative suffix -est. For the -m-, see -most, and compare similarly formed Old Frisian formest, Gothic frumists. Altered on the assumption that it is a compound of fore and most. The same compound without the superlative -m- is first. Also in Old English as an adverb, "first of all, at first, in the first place."

1. She is, first and foremost, her husband's alter ego.

她首先是丈夫的知己。

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2. He was one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Indian culture.

他是世界上最杰出的古印第安文化研究者之一。

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3. I see myself, first and foremost, as a working artist.

我首先還是把自己看作一名藝術(shù)工作者。

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4. It is first and foremost a trade agreement.

這首先是一個(gè)貿(mào)易協(xié)議。

來自柯林斯例句

5. the world's foremost authority on the subject

該學(xué)科全世界首屈一指的權(quán)威

來自《權(quán)威詞典》