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单词 in the first place
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in the first place

phrase
You say in the first place when you are talking about the beginning of a situation or about the situation as it was before a series of events.
What brought you to Washington in the first place?
Ideally, we should avoid gaffes in the first place.
I don't think we should have been there in the first place.
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in the first place in the second place

or in the second place
phrase
You say in the first place and in the second place to introduce the first and second in a series of points or reasons. In the first place can also be used to emphasize a very important point or reason.
In the first place you are not old and in the second place you are a very attractiveman.
She could not have taken these massive doses orally. In the first place, she didnot have enough pills.
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in the first place in American English

firstly; to begin with
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Examples of 'in the first place' in a sentence
in the first place

I ask him why he wanted to write a second memoir in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
No, because he wasn't thinking about the ban in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Who knew that there were ten important things to remember about plural adjectives in the first place?
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
We were sceptical about the bands in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Remember what you liked about each other in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It makes me wonder how much they actually know about dancing in the first place.
The Sun (2015)
But what about avoiding problems in the first place?
The Sun (2010)
But researchers have discovered that going online may be causing their illness in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
To go to trial was a financial and physical risk, compounding the dangers of writing about organised crime in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
All of this meant you had to keep digging to find an answer that you weren't very bothered about in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This is the sort of French food that got those of us who care too much about food into caring about food in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He has become obsessive, in the first place, about the past.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In the run-up to the general election, the parties have worked hard to remind us of what we disliked about them in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Good on him for fronting up, but it says something about the English mentality that his name was being bandied about in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)

Chinese translation of 'in the first place'

in the first place

  1. (= first of all) 首先 (shǒuxiān)
  2. (= originally) 原先 (yuánxiān)
See place (sense 10)

Nearby words of
in the first place

  • in the first flush of freedom
  • in the first flush of youth
  • in the first instance
  • in the first place
  • in the flesh
  • in the foreseeable future
  • in the form of
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