第一流人物 meaning in English

first-rater

First-class men are hard to come at .
第一流人物难得。
Of western painting in china
被誉为“中国西洋画家中第一流人物” 。
It is the moral qualities of its leading personalities that are perhaps of even greater significance for a generation and for the course of history than purely intellectual accomplishments
第一流人物对于时代和历史进程的意义，在其道德品质方面，也许比单纯的才智成就方面还要大。
Gradually the reception - room filled , and some of our old friends made their appearance - we mean debray , chateau - renaud , and beauchamp , accompanied by all the leading men of the day at the bar , in literature , or the army , for m . de villefort moved in the first parisian circles , less owing to his social position than to his personal merit
客厅被人挤满了，我们的几位老朋友都已经来到，先前是德布雷夏多勒诺和波尚，然后是当时司法界文学界和军界的领袖人物因为维尔福先生是巴黎社会中的第一流人物，这，一部分是由于他的社会地位，但更重要的，还是由于他个人才干的力量。