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
- 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？ - 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。 - 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。 - Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
我首先为什么要去邮局来着？ - 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。 - Looking to the future, though, we asked him what the prospects are for a vaccine to prevent infection in the first place.
不过，展望未来，我们问到他研制出防止感染的疫苗究竟有多大的可能性。 - 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。 - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - 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。