ReadWriteQuiz
Chinese dictionary
- 1
n.earlier; before; first; in advance
我先说几句。
Let me say a few words first.
他先走了，把我一个人留在这。
He took off first and left me here alone.
去学校之前，我先去了趟超市。
Before going to school, I went to the supermarket.
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- 2
n.fmlelder generation; ancestor; forefather
祖先
ancestor
先人
ancestors
- 3
adj.respof previous generation(s); deceased
先父
my late father
先烈
martyrs
先哲
great thinker of yore
- 4
adv.temporarily; for the time being; for now
Words and phrases with 先
- 先后[word]order of priority/precedence; successively
- 先知[word]person of foresight; prophet
- 先天性[word]congenital
- 先富起来[word]become prosperous first
- 先河[word]beginning
- 先锋队[word]vanguard
- 先验[word]a priori
- 先帝[word]late/previous emperor
- 先令[word]shilling; shilling
- 先见之明[idiom]foresight
- 先来后到[idiom]first served
- 先知先觉[idiom]having foresight; person of foresight/vision
- 先声夺人[idiom]forestall one's opponent by a show of strength
- 先发制人[idiom]gain the initiative by striking the first blow
- 先入为主[idiom]have a preconception
- 先睹为快[idiom]take delight in being the first to read or see something
- 先斩后奏[idiom]act first and report afterwards
- 先天不足[idiom]be congenitally deficient