in the first place

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.

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 ?

" 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.

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 brought you to Washington in the first place?

最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？

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。

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

当初你就不该这么做.

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!

Why did you choose basketball in the first place?

你为何首先选择篮球 呢 ?

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。

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。

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。

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.

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. ”

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。