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
- What can I tell you? You shouldn't have been riding it in the first place.
你要我怎么说呢？你首先就不应该骑摩托车。 - What brought you to Washington in the first place?
最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？ - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - This may have something to do with who is "in the room" in the first place.
这可能首先与谁“在那个房间里”有关。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I hear an echo of the thinking that got us into this mess in the first place
我听到有人重提那个最先使我们陷入这一困境的想法。 - 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。