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
- You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
我首先雇了她算是傻透了。 - 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？ - 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 did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？ - 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。 - 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。 - Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
我首先为什么要去邮局来着？ - 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？