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
- 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。 - 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。 - You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。 - Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？ - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - 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。 - 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 you must rev it up to warm the engine.
首先你必须让发动机转起来预热。 - 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。 - 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。