in the first place

[in ðə fə:st pleis]
  • 释义
  • 首先,从一开始;压根儿;固;当初;

  • 双语例句
  • 1、

    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。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 2、

    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。

    ——柯林斯例句
  • 3、

    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。

    柯林斯例句
  • 4、

    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
  • 5、

    What brought you to Washington in the first place?

    最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的?

    柯林斯例句
  • 6、

    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
  • 7、

    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》
  • 8、

    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。

    柯林斯例句
  • 9、

    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》
  • 10、

    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
  • 11、

    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
  • 12、

    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
  • 13、

    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
  • 14、

    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。

    柯林斯例句
  • 15、

    " 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)