in the first place

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. Looking to the future, though, we asked him what the prospects are for a vaccine to prevent infection in the first place.
   不过，展望未来，我们问到他研制出防止感染的疫苗究竟有多大的可能性。
4. What brought you to Washington in the first place?
   最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？
5. 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。
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。
7. 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。
8. She could not have taken these massive doses orally. In the first place, she did not have enough pills.
   她不可能口服这么大的剂量，因为她根本没有足够的药丸了。
9. 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。
10. You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.
    当初你就不该这么做。
11. Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?
    你为何首先选择篮球呢？
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. In the first place, it's not in that direction.
    首先，不是这个方向。
15. 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？
16. 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？
17. Well, ask yourself this question: which one is easier to move in the first place?
    问下你自己这个问题：那一个首先比较容易移动？
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. I ordered them to this world in the first place.
    我命令他们首先进入这个世界。
21. You and your people were the reason we came here in the first place.
    你和你的人民是我们来这里的首要原因。
22. What can I tell you? You shouldn't have been riding it in the first place.
    你要我怎么说呢？你首先就不应该骑摩托车。
23. 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。
24. I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
    我首先雇了她算是傻透了。
25. Why was I going to the post office in the first place?
    我首先为什么要去邮局来着？
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. This may have something to do with who is "in the room" in the first place.
    这可能首先与谁“在那个房间里”有关。
30. And you are the only reason I showed up in the first place.
    而你一直是我在这里出现的唯一原因。

adv

1. of primary import
   1. this is primarily a question of economics
   2. it was in the first place a local matter

   Synonym:    primarily

2. before now
   1. why didn't you tell me in the first place?

   Synonym:    earlierin the beginningto begin withoriginally