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
- 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。 - That's all well and good, but how do we find those applications in the first place?
这简直棒极了，但首先我们如何查找那些应用程序？ - Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
我首先为什么要去邮局来着？ - 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。 - I ordered them to this world in the first place.
我命令他们首先进入这个世界。 - In the first place you must rev it up to warm the engine.
首先你必须让发动机转起来预热。