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
  1. this is primarily a question of economics
  2. it was in the first place a local matter
  Synonym:primarily
• before now
  1. why didn't you tell me in the first place?
  Synonym:earlierin the beginningto begin withoriginally

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In the first place you are not old and in the second place you are a very attractive man
  首先你不老，其次你是个富有魅力的男人。
• Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
  你为何首先选择篮球呢？
• 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。
• What brought you to Washington in the first place?
  最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？
• 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。