捷足先登

You feared that I should be beforehand with you.

你是害怕我会捷足先登的。

You know Manningham's story of the burgher's wife who bade Dick Burbage to her bed after she had seen him in Richard III and how Shakespeare, overhearing, without more ado about nothing, took the cow by the horns and, when Burbage came knocking at the gate, answered from the capon's blankets: William the conqueror came before Richard III .

你们可晓得曼宁汉姆那个关于一个市民老婆的故事吧，她看了迪克。伯比奇在《理查三位》中的演出，就邀请他上自己的床。莎士比亚无意中听到了，没费多大力气就制服了母牛。当伯比奇前来敲门的时候，他从阉鸡的毯子下面回答说：'征服者威廉已比理查三世捷足先登啦。

The name Oklahoma comes from two Choctaw Indian words, okla, which means "people," and humma, which means "red." In 1889, Congress opened up 2 million acres for white settlement (it was previously open only to Native Americans who were forced to leave their homelands), and the first of a number of land runs began.

奥克拉荷马源自两个巧克陶族印第安字，一为代表「人」的 okla ，另一个则是代表「红」的 humma 。1889年时，国会开放了2百万畂地让白人移民定居(本来这块土地只开放给那些被迫离开既有家乡的美国原住民居住)，但少部分土地早就已经有人捷足先登了。

Stores able to get their hands on this "premium" collectable gain a significant advantage.

这也让能够捷足先登，取得现货的店家，奇货可居。

The dramatis personae is a happy girl and her life should be very beatific, but the unmerited person arrive first when the right person is hesitating.

主人公是一个快乐的姑娘，她的生活本该十分幸福--但合适的人犹豫着，不当的人却捷足先登。

So, I want to be the early bird to catch the worm.

所以，我想捷足先登。

The amount of new shopping in attracting a different color of people, gain an advantage over Wal-Mart, Carrefour, followed by the popularity of this convenient way to shop to the world.

新的购物额方式吸引了不同肤色的人，沃尔玛捷足先登，家乐福紧随其后，把这种便捷的购物方式普及到了全世界。

When people heard the early investors were getting money back, they believed Ponzi hook, line and sinker.

人们听说捷足先登的投资人已经赚到钱了，他们就死心塌地地相信Ponzi 。

We arrived early at the theatre so as to preempt the front seats.

我们早早来到剧院，以便捷足先登占到前排座位。

But though he had a knack for being in the right place at the right time—in India at the time of Gandhi's assassination, in China during the Cultural Revolution—he did not really have a nose for a good scoop.

但是，尽管他有本事出现在合适的地方、合适的时间——在印度适逢甘地遇刺、在中国又遇上了文化大革命，但他并不是真的拥有可以使他捷足先登的嗅觉。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。