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。 - What can I tell you? You shouldn't have been riding it in the first place.
你要我怎么说呢？你首先就不应该骑摩托车。 - 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。 - I hear an echo of the thinking that got us into this mess in the first place
我听到有人重提那个最先使我们陷入这一困境的想法。 - Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
我首先为什么要去邮局来着？ - 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。 - If we could predict the evolution of markets, we would not need markets in the first place.
如果我们可以预测市场将如何演进，那我们也就不需要市场了。 - 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。 - That's all well and good, but how do we find those applications in the first place?
这简直棒极了，但首先我们如何查找那些应用程序？ - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？