in the first place

释义

首先，从一开始; 压根儿; 固; 当初

实用场景例句

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。

柯林斯例句

Why did you choose basketball in the first place?

你为何首先选择篮球 呢 ?

《简明英汉词典》

You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.

当初你就不该这么做.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

In the first place there was dreadful line to be drawn.

首先,必须划一条令人很不痛快的界限.

辞典例句

What causes these genetic mix - ups to occur in the first place?

是什么首先引起这些基因混乱的 呢 ?

辞典例句

She said, " I didn't want you to support me in the first place.

她说: “ 我本来也不要你养活.

汉英文学 - 围城

Now you understand why I didn't want to come here in the first place. "

你现在明白为什么我当初不愿意来了. ”

汉英文学 - 围城

" I can't imagine what possessed you to receive him in the first place.

" 首先,我不能想象你中的什么邪竟去接待其他来了.

飘（部分）

If you're so chicken - hearted, Chih - sheng , you shouldn't have come out with us in the first place.

芝生,你那么胆小, 何必出来!

子夜部分

But why did they get all these bad names in the first place?

但为什么他们一开始得此莫须有的罪名?

英语晨读30分（高三）

In the first place, Hoover was as inept at politics as he was superb at administration.

首先, 胡佛精于管理而拙于政治.

辞典例句

What allowed them enough air in the first place was an unexpected stroke of luck.

能使他俩有足够空气的首先是偶然的运气.

辞典例句

It was possible for her to hear in the first place what the extenuating circumstances were.

对她来说首先有可能听到缓和一些的情况是个什么样子.

辞典例句

In the first place, people in service departments must be continually taught this attitude.

首先, 必须不断地教育服务部的人员要持这种态度.

辞典例句

Of all the so - called building minerals, steel ranks in the first place in our economy.

一切 所谓 建造用矿产之中, 铁的地位最高.

辞典例句

英英释义

Adverb

1. before now;

"why didn't you tell me in the first place?"

2. of primary import;

"this is primarily a question of economics"

"it was in the first place a local matter"