I do not know the first thing about the law suit.

我一点儿也知道这件诉讼案的事。

So the revelation that he literally doesn’t know the first thing about the debt crises currently in progress is, as I said, interesting — and not in a good way.

瑞安先生的讲话表明，在目前进展中的债务危机方面，毫不夸张地讲，他连最基本的都不懂。 所以，正如本人前面所说，这种事情很有意思——但并不是好事。

The first thing to know about Acropolis is that it is not a new GUI toolkit.

关于Acropolis，我们需要了解的第一件事情就是它并不是一个新的GUI工具集。

If you are not a chemist, the first basic thing that you should know about physics and chemistry is that electrons are the things that hold atoms and molecules together.

如果你不是个化学家，那么有一点最基本的物理化学知识就是原子和分子是由电子联系在一起的。