近日，新西兰总理杰辛达·阿德恩（Jacinda Arder）在惠灵顿接受电视直播采访时突然遭遇5.8级地震，面对强震感，她表现十分淡定，面带微笑，然后继续接受采访。
New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has developed a reputation for keeping her cool in the face of a crisis. But an earthquake first thing on Monday morning as she was interviewed live on television seemed like an unusually trying way to start a week.
新西兰总理杰辛达·阿德恩以在危机面前保持冷静而走红。周一早上，当她接受电视直播采访时，一大早的地震似乎成了本周一个非比寻常的开端。
知识拓展
first thing 表示“一大早”。
He said he'd call back first thing tomorrow.
他说他明天一大早会回电话。
first 与 at first 用法区别
• 从词性上看
first 可用作形容词或副词，有时还可用作代词；而 at first 作为介词短语，只起副词作用（在句中用作状语）。如：
This is the first time I have heard of such things.
这是我第一次听到这样的事。
At first we used hand tools. Later we had machines.
开始我们用手工工具，后来我们有了机器。
• 从用法上看
first 用来说明顺序，意为“先……”，暗示接下去还有其他动作或事件要发生，因此其后往往接有(或暗示有) then、next、last 等词。如：
Think first, then act.
先想清楚再行动。
at first 的意思是“起初、开始”，它主要用于强调前后对照，暗示接下去的动作与前面的动作不同甚至相反，因此常有 but、afterwards、soon、at last 等相呼应。如：
At first I paid little attention, but slowly my interest awoke.
起初我没怎么注意，但逐渐产生了兴趣。
“We’re just having a bit of an earthquake here,” Ardern told Ryan Bridge, a host for Newshub’s AM Show, live on air. Casting her eyes to the ceiling of the room she was standing in at New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington, she remained in place as the television camera jolted.
阿德恩在直播中告诉新西兰早间新闻节目主持人瑞安·布里奇：“我们这里只是发生了一场地震。”当摄像机明显摇晃时，她仅仅抬头环视了惠灵顿的新西兰议会房间的天花板，但仍然留在原地。
“We’re fine,” Ardern told Bridge, signalling she was ready to continue the interview as the quake rolled to a close. “I’m not under any hanging lights.”
阿德恩告诉布里奇：“我们这里很好，我头顶上又没有灯。”她还在地震接近尾声时表示继续接受采访。
Ardern, like most New Zealanders, is accustomed to earthquakes. New Zealand lies on the seismically active “Ring of Fire”, a 40,000 km arc of volcanoes and ocean trenches girdling much of the Pacific Ocean.
像大多数新西兰人一样，阿德恩习惯了地震。 新西兰位于地震活跃的“火山带”上，这是一个由火山和海沟组成的长达 4 万公里的弧形地带，环绕着太平洋的大部分地区。
知识拓展
be accustomed to 习惯于
be accustomed to 和 be used to 区别
be accustomed to 常常用于指通过努力而成为习惯。
I was accustomed to being the only child at a table full of adults.
我习惯了作为惟一的孩子坐在满是成年人的桌旁。
be used to 一般用于指自然而然地成为习惯。
He is used to living in the country now.
他现在习惯了住在农村。
In 2010 and 2011, two major quakes devastated the South Island city of Christchurch, killing 185 people. And in 2016, another near the town of Kaikoura caused damage throughout the top of the South Island and bottom of the North, with some major buildings in Wellington still closed for earthquake strengthening.
2010年和2011年，两次大地震摧毁了南岛的基督城，造成185人死亡。2016年，凯库拉小镇附近的另一起地震对整个南岛都造成了破坏，以致于惠灵顿的一些主要建筑物仍因地震而关闭。
From：The Guardian