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first-wave
adjective
uk /ˈfɜːstˌweɪv/ us /ˈfɝːstˌweɪv/
used to refer to a group of people who are the first of several groups to do something, or to the first part of an activity that later happens again or is repeated after a pause: 第一批的，首批的；第一波的
First-wave adopters learnt from the problems of being early users.作为早期用户，第一批使用者从这些问题中吸取了教训。
Captain Hillier and company made a suicidal first-wave assault on the beaches of Normandy.希利尔上尉和他带领的连队对诺曼底海滩发动了自杀式的第一波攻击。
Very few people alive today remember first-wave feminism, the movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries when the real groundwork was laid.
The role entailed recruiting a first-wave team, comprising a full-time member of staff responsible for the day-to-day running of the project, an assistant and a project audiologist.
Most of the first-wave EU members would enter the monetary union with high rates of unemployment.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Beginnings and starts
a baptism of/by fireidiom
advent
baptism
beginning
birth
commencement
initiation
introduction
jumping-off point
kick off
onset
opening
outbreak
square
starter
starting time
the thin end of the wedgeidiom
thin
trigger
zero hour
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