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
- 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。 - Well, ask yourself this question: which one is easier to move in the first place?
问下你自己这个问题：那一个首先比较容易移动？ - Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？ - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。