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
- 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。 - This is the whole reason I got suckered into the2000 Passat in the first place.
这是我被2000年车型的帕萨特快整疯了的主要原因。 - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - 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。 - In the first place, it is a good way to lead you through the crowd.
首先，这是一个非常好带着你穿过人群的方法。 - You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。 - I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
我首先雇了她算是傻透了。