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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。 - 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。