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
- And you are the only reason I showed up in the first place.
而你一直是我在这里出现的唯一原因。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - 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。 - 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? - 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。 - 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。
