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。 - 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？ - Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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 brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - 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。 - 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。