⬅️复句 COMPLEX SENTENCES
承接复句 Successive Complex Sentences
In a successive complex sentence, consecutive clauses describe things happen or come one after the other.
- 先…,再/然后…。
- 首先…,然后…。
- 首先…,其次…。
- …,于是…。
- …便…。
- …,此后…。
- 起初…,最后…。

- 鞋子要先穿上试一试再买。
Try the shoes on before you buy them. - 他先踢左腿,然后踢右腿。
First he kicked the left leg, then he kicked the right. - 他首先是作家,然后才是科学家。
He is a writer first and a scientist second. - 首先是价格贵,其次,速度太慢。
Firstly, it's expensive, and secondly, it's too slow. - 他们的衣服首先重实用,其次才讲花式。
Their clothing is primarily functional and only secondarily decorative. - 他躲开最先几拳后,便开始反击。
He ducked the first few blows then started to fight back. - 她在玩一把刀子,于是我把刀子从她手里夺了过来。
She was playing with a knife, so I took it away from her. - 此后事情开始失去控制。
After that, things started to go haywire. - 他此后一直都活跃于该协会,后来还当了副会长。 He was to remain active in the association, latterly as vice president, for the rest of his life.
- 马克起初非常紧张,最后终于放松了。
Mark, who had at first been very tense, at last relaxed. - 起初我觉得这份工作很累人,但很快就习惯了。
I found the job tiring at first but I soon got used to it. - 他起初并不喜欢这个计划,但我们最终使他回心转意了。
He didn't like the plan at first, but we managed to bring him round. - 大使首先讲了话,然后外交部长也讲了话。
- 你先去领工作服,随后我带你到办公室去。
- 他听了,二话没说,转身就出了门,一口气走了两个多小时,来到了马家窑。
