| 单词 | in the first place |
| 例句 | DEFINITIVE EXAMPLES 权威例句〔-cheeked〕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。柯林斯高阶〔FAULT〕Of course she was angry - but it's your fault for telling her about the whole thing in the first place. 她当然要生气了，但把这件事全都告诉她首先就是你的错。朗文写作活用〔FIRST〕In the first place, they have a more experienced team, so they're more likely to win. 首先他们的球队有更多经验，所以他们更有可能赢。朗文写作活用〔IDEA〕Of course! If he thinks it was his idea in the first place, he's bound to agree. What an inspiration! 那当然了！如果他认为这想法首先是他提出来的，他肯定会同意。多妙的主意啊！朗文写作活用〔INTERESTED〕What interests me most is where he got all that money in the first place. 最让我感兴趣的就是首先他是从哪里弄来这么多钱的。朗文写作活用〔MISTAKE〕It was a bad move letting him come here in the first place. 让他来这里首先就是错误的一步。朗文写作活用〔OWN〕The money wasn't Sara's to lend you in the first place. 首先，这些钱不是萨拉的，她没有权借给你。朗文写作活用〔SEX〕I don't know why I was ever attracted to him in the first place. 我不知道我当初为什么会被他吸引。朗文写作活用〔beg〕The whole idea of a Patients' Charter begs the question that the government should be involved in the first place.《病人约章》的整个制定思想是以政府首先介入为前提的。麦克米伦高阶〔beyond〕Why Joan ever married such an idiot in the first place is beyond me.我不明白琼当初怎么会嫁给这样一个白痴。朗文当代〔disagree〕When I pointed out that it had been her idea in the first place, she could hardly disagree.当我指出这本来就是她的想法后，她就很难再反对了。牛津搭配〔dumb〕It was a dumb idea in the first place.那根本就是个馊主意。韦氏高阶〔feeling〕I really wish we hadn't dreamed up this idea in the first place.—I know the feeling.我真希望我们一开始就没有想出这么个主意。——我知道这种感受。外研社新世纪〔first〕Thankfully, he wasn't hurt, but he never should have been there in the first place.谢天谢地他没受伤，但是他原本就不应该到那儿去。剑桥高阶〔first〕The trousers shrank when I washed them, but they weren't really big enough in the first place.这条长裤洗过后缩水了，但是它原本就不够大。剑桥高阶〔first〕There were several reasons he couldn't sleep. In the first place, Peg snored.他有几个原因不能入睡。首先，佩格打鼾。麦克米伦高阶〔foolhardy〕It was foolhardy to get involved in the first place.一开始就介入其中是莽撞的。麦克米伦高阶〔gaff〕The politician rather blew the gaff in the first place.那位政客其实一开始就泄露了秘密。外研社新世纪〔hastily〕If they hadn't acted so hastily in the first place, we wouldn't be in this mess now.如果他们一开始没有仓促行事, 我们现在就不会陷入这样的混乱之中。外研社新世纪〔hook up with〕I'd like to know how you hooked up with Emerald in the first place.我想知道一开始你是怎么跟爱莫瑞德好上的。外研社新世纪〔humble〕In my humble opinion (= I want to emphasize that I think that) we should never have bought the car in the first place.依拙见，首先我们就不应该买这辆汽车。剑桥高阶〔imprimis〕In the first place.首先；第一美国传统〔in the first place〕I didn't care much for the job in the first place.起初我并不太喜欢这份工作。韦氏高阶〔in the first/second place〕I'm not going to tell you because, in the first place, it's none of your business, and in the second place, you would tell everyone else.我不打算告诉你，因为：第一，这不关你的事；第二，你会告诉每个人。韦氏高阶〔into〕It was you who got us into this mess in the first place.首先是你把我们置于这一困境之中的。麦克米伦高阶〔irresponsible〕It was irresponsible of the school to allow this to happen in the first place.首先是学校不负责任，才会让这种事发生。麦克米伦高阶〔look to〕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。柯林斯高阶〔mad〕I was mad to have hired her in the first place.我首先雇了她算是傻透了美国传统〔mess〕The biggest question is how they got into this mess in the first place.关键问题是他们是怎么惹出这样的麻烦的。牛津高阶〔object〕It was your own idea in the first place, so you can hardly object now.这原本就是你的主意，所以现在没你反对的份儿。牛津搭配〔place〕In the first place, I'm too busy, and in the second I don't really want to go.首先，我太忙了;其次，我不太想去。朗文当代〔place〕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。柯林斯高阶〔place〕I should never have taken that job in the first place.我当初就不该接受那份工作。牛津高阶〔place〕I still don't understand why you chose that name in the first place.我仍不明白你究竟为什么取了这么个名字。牛津高阶〔place〕It wasn't my idea to go to that school in the first place. Dad shoved me in.进那所学校压根儿不是我的意思;是爸爸硬要我进的。英汉大词典〔place〕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。柯林斯高阶〔place〕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。柯林斯高阶〔place〕We don't know how the moon was formed in the first place.我们不知道月球最初是怎样形成的。英汉大词典〔place〕Well, in the first place he has all the right qualifications.嗯，首先，他符合一切条件。牛津高阶〔place〕You can't go swimming. In the first place, the water is too cold; and in the second place, ...你不能去游泳,首先是水太凉,其次是… 英汉大词典〔propel〕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。外研社新世纪〔purpose〕Exercising too much defeats the purpose of doing exercise in the first place.使无法达到某目的麦克米伦高阶〔recollect〕She couldn't recollect who had mentioned his name in the first place.她不记得究竟是谁提到了他的名字。韦氏高阶〔rev up〕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。21世纪英汉〔rich〕The education minister's criticism of the new exam system seems rich, considering it was he who demanded the changes in the first place.教育部长对新考试制度的批评似乎有点荒唐可笑，因为当时正是他要求作出这些改革的。剑桥高阶Enquiries about the post should be addressed in the first place (Br also in the first instance) (=in the beginning) to the personnel manager.有关那职位的咨询应该首先交人事部经理处理。剑桥国际I don't want to go yet -- in the first place I'm not ready, and in the second place it's raining.我还不想走，首先，我没有准备好，其次，在下雨。剑桥国际In my humble opinion (= I want to emphasize that I think that) we should never have bought the car in the first place.依我之见，首先是我们不该买这车。剑桥国际Our offer was ￡3 million, but they objected that (= opposed it because) they had paid ￡4 million for the property in the first place.我们出价3百万英镑，但是他们反对，因为他们原先为这块地产付出了4百万英镑。剑桥国际To tell her was fairly stupid in the first place.告诉她首先就很愚蠢。剑桥国际 |
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