the first place

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。

At first the place was strange to me.

起先我对这个地方不熟悉。

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. ”

But why did they get all these bad names in the first place?

但为什么他们一开始得此莫须有的罪名?

" 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, Hoover was as inept at politics as he was superb at administration.

首先, 胡佛精于管理而拙于政治.

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。

What allowed them enough air in the first place was an unexpected stroke of luck.

能使他俩有足够空气的首先是偶然的运气.

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 know a place where the food is first-class.

我知道有一个品尝一流美食的地方。

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 ?

Theology occupied the first place among the sciences.

神学则位于众学科之首.

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 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。

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

当初你就不该这么做.

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。

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.

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。

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。

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。

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'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。

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!

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。

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 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。

Mesopotamia was probably the first region of the world where humans gained mastery over major rivers.

美索不达米亚地区可能是世界上人类最早征服主干河流的地区。

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。