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
- If we could predict the evolution of markets, we would not need markets in the first place.
如果我们可以预测市场将如何演进，那我们也就不需要市场了。 - Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
我首先为什么要去邮局来着？ - 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。 - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - 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 you must rev it up to warm the engine.
首先你必须让发动机转起来预热。 - I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
我首先雇了她算是傻透了。 - 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。 - 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。