首先，最初：在句子末尾使用，表示在某种情况下应该在一开始就采取某种行动或做出某种决定。在列举某事物的最重要部分或最重要原因时也可以使用。
before now
同义词： earlier / in the beginning / to begin with / originally
of primary import
同义词： primarily
... II．重点短语 in the first place （用于列举理由等时）首先，第一，原先 center on 将某人（某物）当作中心或重点 ...
... 起床;站起;举办;安排;化装;打扮：get up 起初;首先;早先：in the first place 起初;开始：at first ...
... in arow一个接一个地；持续不断地 in the first place(用于列举理由等时)首先；第一；原先 account n.叙述；账目；账户 ...
... in arow一个接一个地；持续不断地 in the first place(用于列举理由等时)首先；第一；原先 account n.叙述；账目；账户 ...
首先；起初
at first / at the beginning / above all / in the first instance
Well, in the first place he has all the right qualifications.
噢，首先，他符合一切条件。
In the first place you are not old, Conway. And in the second place, you are a very strong and appealing man.
首先，你不老，康韦。其次，你是个非常强壮、有魅力的男人。
Looking to the future, though, we asked him what the prospects are for a vaccine to prevent infection in the first place.
然而，展望未来时，我们首先问他一种预防传染的疫苗前景如何。
It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.
VOA : special.2009.09.17
And he's going to have to rectify the circumstances that made his destruction of the earth necessary in the first place.
他不得不修正,他认为有必要毁灭人类的情形。
旧约导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
The reason I got to be a soccer team captain in the first place was because my coach said,
我最初之所以成为球队队长是因为我的教练说，
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 足球部队长的领导力
"And this will require that we continue to tackle the underlying problems that caused this turmoil in the first place.
VOA : standard.2010.04.24
Particularly employees who got them into this mess in the first place. I think it is an outrage."
VOA : standard.2009.03.15
And it is the reason why we went to Afghanistan in the first place.
Muto's short-lived tenure as the Fox "mole" wasn't particularly well thought-out in the first place.
The vision is the reason for being in the car and driving in the first place.
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