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。 - 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。 - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
我首先为什么要去邮局来着？ - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - Looking to the future, though, we asked him what the prospects are for a vaccine to prevent infection in the first place.
不过，展望未来，我们问到他研制出防止感染的疫苗究竟有多大的可能性。 - 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。