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 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。 - 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。 - 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 you must rev it up to warm the engine.
首先你必须让发动机转起来预热。 - 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 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。 - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
我首先雇了她算是傻透了。 - 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。 - 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？