► 名詞
初め [はじめ] meaning: first rank: 1
☆ 私も初めは無理だと思ったが、練習したら出来るようになった ⇨ At first I too thought it was impossible, but I practiced and learned to do it
☆ 誰が初めに話すの？ ⇨ Who speaks first?
More examples:
- 病気になって初めて健康の大切さを実感した ⇨ I truly realized the importance of health only when I became sick
- 試合に初めて勝って自信がついた ⇨ I won my first game and gained confidence
- 初めての口づけ ⇨ The first kiss
- 彼は日本人で初めて100mで10秒を切った ⇨ He is the first Japanese to run 100m under 10 seconds
- ロケット打上げの初めての試み ⇨ The first attempt af rocket launch
- 二人の馴れ初めは～だった ⇨ The way the two met for the first time was …
- 初めの頃の成功で有頂天になって失敗した ⇨ I was too excited and ecstatic with the early success, and then failed
- その話は初めて聞いた ⇨ I heard that story for the first time. Never heard of it before
- 彼女は長い下積みの後、初めての映画を監督した ⇨ She finally directed her own movie after many years of apprenticeship
- 自分が差別されて初めて差別される側の気持ちが分かった ⇨ I finally understood how the discriminated feel when I myself got discriminated
- 人類が初めて月に降り立った瞬間 ⇨ The moment a human stepped on the moon for the first time
- その夜二人は初めて契った ⇨ The two made love that night for the first time
- 私には当たり前だが彼にとっては初めての事だ ⇨ I take it for granted but for him this is all new
- 手から血が出ていることに見て初めて気がついた ⇨ I realized my hand was bleeding only when I saw it
- 初めから終わりまで通して練習してみよう ⇨ Let’s rehearse from the beginning to the end in one session