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单词 first gear
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first gear
first gear n. the lowest in a set of gears on a vehicle, used when travelling very slowly; also figurative with reference to slow or initial progress (cf. low gear n. at low adj. and n.2 Compounds 3).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > gear > specific gear
bottom gear?1865
high gear1889
low gear1895
fourth1900
second gear1902
first gear1907
second1907
first1909
second speed1912
high1914
low1914
1907 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 May 1133/2 In changing from the first speed to a higher speed the car should be made to run rather fast for the first gear.
1950 Billboard 24 June 94/3 Detroit's long-discussed International Trade Fair moved into first gear this week with the organization of a preliminary board of directors.
1965 Motoring Which? Oct. 136/2 The effect of changing to low ratio is to make all gears lower, so that, for example, in the Land-Rover you then have three gears lower than the ordinary first gear.
1971 New Scientist 10 June 649/2 The discussion had only just got into first gear at the end of its hour.
1994 D. J. Wishart Unspeakable Sadness Acknowledgem. p. xv I am particularly grateful to Jeanne Kay for getting this project out of first gear.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Nov. (Sports section) 9/3 The manual transmission is a bit easy to stall in first gear, but you can crawl in second.
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