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
- We are to blame in the first place for breaking our own rules.
我们没有遵守自己的规定，要首先受责备。 - 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。 - 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。 - You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。 - If I only knew this I wouldn't live with you in the first place.
如果早知道我就不跟你住一起了。 - 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。 - 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。 - Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？ - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？