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
  1. this is primarily a question of economics
  2. it was in the first place a local matter
  Synonym:primarily
• before now
  1. why didn't you tell me in the first place?
  Synonym:earlierin the beginningto begin withoriginally

双语例句

• In the first place you must rev it up to warm the engine.
  首先你必须让发动机转起来预热。
• 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 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 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。
• Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
  你为何首先选择篮球呢？
• 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。
• If I only knew this I wouldn't live with you in the first place.
  如果早知道我就不跟你住一起了。
• This is the whole reason I got suckered into the2000 Passat in the first place.
  这是我被2000年车型的帕萨特快整疯了的主要原因。
• 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。