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
- I'm amazed they had the cheek to ask in the first place
我真惊讶他们当初竟然有脸问。 - I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
我首先雇了她算是傻透了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。