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'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？ - In the first place you must rev it up to warm the engine.
首先你必须让发动机转起来预热。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - 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。 - 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。