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
- 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。 - 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？ - 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'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 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。