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 was mad to have hired her in the first place.
我首先雇了她算是傻透了。 - 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。 - 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 you are not old and in the second place you are a very attractive man
首先你不老，其次你是个富有魅力的男人。 - 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, 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？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。