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 you must rev it up to warm the engine.
首先你必须让发动机转起来预热。 - It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place
最初是一颗流星促使我从事天文学。 - 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。 - 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。 - I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
我首先雇了她算是傻透了。 - 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。 - 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, 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。