in the first place

Maybe you should have done that in the first place .

也许你起初就不该那么做。

We never should have had this thing here in the first place !

起初就不应该把这东西放在这儿

I should never have taken that job in the first place .

我当初就不该接受那份工作。

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

噢，首先，他符合一切条件。

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。

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。

What brought you to Washington in the first place ?

最初是什么让你来到华盛顿的？

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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

当初你就不该这么做。

Why did you choose the basketball in the first place ?

你为何首先选择篮球呢？

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。

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。

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。

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?

Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem , because when we go to change the way we do things , up come the old patterns and pitfalls that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place .

但是，知道我们可以获得更多东西又会导致一个问题，因为当我们去改变做事情的方式时，旧模式和陷阱会首先跳出来阻止我们追求最想要的东西。

" So , why didn 't you tell me about that problem in the first place ? " Sally asked .

“那么，你为什么一开始不告诉我那个问题呢？”莎莉问。

The fox told him and also how he got into the cart in the first place .

狐狸如实告诉了它，还透露了自己先前如何通过计谋上了这辆鱼车。

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。

He said to himself : " If I knew this earlier , why did I get up in the first place ? "

他自言自语地说：“早知如此，刚才何必爬起来呢！”

Normally , this threat would be immediately cleared when the people who offered the treat in the first place paid for the bill .

通常情况下，请客的一方结账以后，这个“钱包威胁”就立即解除了。

When you get to where you were intending to go , you forget why you were going there in the first place , which is destinesia .

“目的健忘”就是，当你到达了一个你要去的地方，却忘了当时为什么要去。

Open the fridge door and reach for the middle shelf only to realise that we can 't remember why we opened the fridge in the first place .

打开冰箱门，伸手探向中间那一层，却忘记自己究竟为什么要打开冰箱门。

The man thought it was unnessary to do so . He said , " I have two reasons . In the first place , no one in the cemetery can get out ; and in the second place , no one out want to get in . "

这个人认为没有必要这样做。他说：“我有两个理由，首先，墓地里的人没有一个人能够出来；其次，外面的人也没有一个会想进去。”

But fortunately , there are still several months left before the friend ’ s internship ends . And anyway , it was the institution which proposed the job in the first place . So there is still a chance for him to turn back .

不过还好，这位朋友的实习期还有几个月，而且毕竟是机构要留他，之后还有回头的机会。