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单词 number one
释义

number one

informal
noun
1A person or thing that is foremost or most important in an activity or area: businesses that were number one in their markets...
  • Being number one was more important than winning titles.
  • Through all the years performing on stage Leviev kept on repeating his motto that it is not important to be number one but to sustain your position.
  • Els remembers the difference he saw in the world number one at the 2000 Presidents Cup compared to the 1998 match in Australia.

Synonyms

primary, main, chief, key, prime, central, principal, overriding, foremost, first, most important, predominant, paramount, major, ruling, dominant, master, supreme, cardinal, pre-eminent, ultimate
informal top-notch
1.1A recording or other product in a particular category that has sold the most copies in a particular time period.The final of the souped-up talent contest is on Saturday, December 17, which gives the winner four days to get a single into the shops in time to make a claim on the Christmas number-one spot, assuming G4 or Westlife don't get there first....
  • Not every young person is going to get onto Popstars, or sell a number one record.
  • These three lines from one song from the current number one Hindi film soundtrack album (Kal Ho Naa Ho) in Mumbai say it all.
2Used in reference to oneself: you must look after number one...
  • The fact that he treated me like a loyal puppy never bothered me much because I knew that I was always number one when it came to his heart, always one of the most important people in his life.

Synonyms

self-interested, self-seeking, self-serving, self-regarding, selfish, egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, self-obsessed, self-absorbed, wrapped up in oneself, inward-looking
3Used euphemistically to refer to urine.
4The shortest men’s cropped haircut produced with electric hair clippers.Nearly all the women had hair on the curly/frizzy/wavy continuum and nearly all the men had a number one / two haircut.
5A first lieutenant in the navy.
adjective
1Most important or prevalent; foremost: a number-one priority coronary disease is the number-one killer of American men...
  • ‘Our number-one priority was performance,’ says chief engineer Nobuaki Katayama.
  • Our number-one priority has been reducing the numbers of those at risk of internal sewer flooding and addressing the worst cases of external flooding.
  • Andy Brown, BSM roadshow manager, said: ‘Learning to drive is a number-one priority for most young people.’
1.1Best-selling in a particular category: a number-one album
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