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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place
最初是一颗流星促使我从事天文学。 - I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
我首先雇了她算是傻透了。 - 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。 - 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。 - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - 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。 - 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。