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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。 - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - Looking to the future, though, we asked him what the prospects are for a vaccine to prevent infection in the first place.
不过，展望未来，我们问到他研制出防止感染的疫苗究竟有多大的可能性。 - 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。 - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - What can I tell you? You shouldn't have been riding it in the first place.
你要我怎么说呢？你首先就不应该骑摩托车。