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
- She could not have taken these massive doses orally. In the first place, she did not have enough pills.
她不可能口服这么大的剂量，因为她根本没有足够的药丸了。 - I don't think we should have been there in the first place.
我认为我们从一开始就不该在那儿。 - I'm amazed they had the cheek to ask in the first place
我真惊讶他们当初竟然有脸问。 - 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？ - The emphasis is swinging away from simply finding cures for illness to ways of preventing illness in the first place
重点正从简单地对症下药转移到先期预防的方法上来。 - That's all well and good, but how do we find those applications in the first place?
这简直棒极了，但首先我们如何查找那些应用程序？ - Well, I forget why I called that person in the first place.
哦，我忘记了自己为什么要首先给那人打电话。 - 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。