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

In the first place, it is a good way to lead you through the crowd.
首先，这是一个非常好带着你穿过人群的方法。
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。
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 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。
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。
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。
Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
你为何首先选择篮球呢？
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。
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？
In the first place, it's not in that direction.
首先，不是这个方向。