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 ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - 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。 - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - 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。 - Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？ - You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。