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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。