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
  1. this is primarily a question of economics
  2. it was in the first place a local matter
  Synonym:primarily
• before now
  1. why didn't you tell me in the first place?
  Synonym:earlierin the beginningto begin withoriginally

双语例句

• What brought you to Washington in the first place?
  最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？
• 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。
• 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。
• Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
  我首先为什么要去邮局来着？
• 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。
• You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
  当初你就不该这么做。
• In the first place you are not old and in the second place you are a very attractive man
  首先你不老，其次你是个富有魅力的男人。
• This is the whole reason I got suckered into the2000 Passat in the first place.
  这是我被2000年车型的帕萨特快整疯了的主要原因。
• 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。
• And you are the only reason I showed up in the first place.
  而你一直是我在这里出现的唯一原因。