in the first place
英 [ɪn ðə fɜːst pleɪs]
美 [ɪn ðə fɜːrst pleɪs]
起初; 一开始; （用于列举事项）第一，首先; （用于强调）首要的是
英英释义
adv
- of primary import
- this is primarily a question of economics
- it was in the first place a local matter
- before now
- why didn't you tell me in the first place?
双语例句
- That is why we should not have fallen into the quagmire in the first place.
所以我们首先就不能陷入泥潭。 - This may have something to do with who is "in the room" in the first place.
这可能首先与谁“在那个房间里”有关。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - You and your people were the reason we came here in the first place.
你和你的人民是我们来这里的首要原因。 - Well, ask yourself this question: which one is easier to move in the first place?
问下你自己这个问题：那一个首先比较容易移动？ - In the first place you are not old and in the second place you are a very attractive man
首先你不老，其次你是个富有魅力的男人。 - I hear an echo of the thinking that got us into this mess in the first place
我听到有人重提那个最先使我们陷入这一困境的想法。 - Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？ - And you are the only reason I showed up in the first place.
而你一直是我在这里出现的唯一原因。 - If we could predict the evolution of markets, we would not need markets in the first place.
如果我们可以预测市场将如何演进，那我们也就不需要市场了。