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

• I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
  我首先雇了她算是傻透了。
• 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。
• I ordered them to this world in the first place.
  我命令他们首先进入这个世界。
• 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。
• I hear an echo of the thinking that got us into this mess in the first place
  我听到有人重提那个最先使我们陷入这一困境的想法。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
  当初你就不该这么做。
• 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。