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
- 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。 - 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。 - Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
我首先为什么要去邮局来着？ - 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。 - 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。 - You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
当初你就不该这么做。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。