in the first place

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!

You should never have acted the way you did in the first place.

当初你就不该这么做.

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. ”

The biggest question is how they got into this mess in the first place.

关键问题是他们究竟是怎么惹出这样的麻烦的。

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。

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 ?

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.

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。

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。

There were simple ways of avoiding the problem in the first place when ordering your ice cold beverage1.

在点冰冻饮料的时候其实有简单的办法可以避免这样的问题。

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。

Well, in the first place he has all the right qualifications.

噢，首先，他符合一切条件。

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。

Why did you choose the basketball in the first place?

你为何首先选择篮球呢？

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。

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。

What brought you to Washington in the first place?

最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？

" 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.

The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

该理论认为削弱吸烟的吸引力，从而劝阻下一代开始抽烟。

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。

Why did you choose basketball in the first place?

你为何首先选择篮球 呢 ?

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。

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。

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。

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。

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.

If producers are required to take back packaging they use to sell their products, would they reduce the packaging in the first place?

如果要求生产商收回他们用来销售产品的包装,他们会首先减少包装吗?

He lost his place in the first team.

他失去了在一队的资格。

At first she tried to take charge of the meeting but I soon put her in her place.

起初她很想主持会议，但我很快就把她轰下来了。

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。