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。
• 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。
• 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？
• That is why we should not have fallen into the quagmire in the first place.
  所以我们首先就不能陷入泥潭。
• I ordered them to this world in the first place.
  我命令他们首先进入这个世界。
• 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。
• Well, I forget why I called that person in the first place.
  哦，我忘记了自己为什么要首先给那人打电话。
• 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。
• You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
  当初你就不该这么做。
• 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。