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
- What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - In the first place, it is a good way to lead you through the crowd.
首先，这是一个非常好带着你穿过人群的方法。 - 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。 - 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 should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。 - 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？ - 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。