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
- This may have something to do with who is "in the room" in the first place.
这可能首先与谁“在那个房间里”有关。 - 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 was I going to the post office in the first place?
我首先为什么要去邮局来着？ - The emphasis is swinging away from simply finding cures for illness to ways of preventing illness in the first place
重点正从简单地对症下药转移到先期预防的方法上来。 - 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。 - How do we know that you're designing and constructing the right kind of application in the first place?
首先我们如何知道你们正在设计和构建的应用程序的类型是合适的？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。