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

• Well, ask yourself this question: which one is easier to move in the first place?
  问下你自己这个问题：那一个首先比较容易移动？
• In the first place, it's not in that direction.
  首先，不是这个方向。
• 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。
• 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。
• I ordered them to this world in the first place.
  我命令他们首先进入这个世界。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
  我首先为什么要去邮局来着？
• She could not have taken these massive doses orally. In the first place, she did not have enough pills.
  她不可能口服这么大的剂量，因为她根本没有足够的药丸了。