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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - She could not have taken these massive doses orally. In the first place, she did not have enough pills.
她不可能口服这么大的剂量，因为她根本没有足够的药丸了。 - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - How do we know that you're designing and constructing the right kind of application in the first place?
首先我们如何知道你们正在设计和构建的应用程序的类型是合适的？ - 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。