in the first place

— used at the end of a sentence to indicate what was true or what should have been done at the beginning of a situation起初，原先（用于句尾表示开始时本应该做的事或开始时的实际情况）

We should never have gone there in the first place. [=to begin with]我们当初不应该去那儿。
I didn't care much for the job in the first place.起初我并不太喜欢这份工作。

⇒ Main Entry: ¹ place

in the first place

idiom

—used at the end of a sentence to indicate what was true or what should have been done at the beginning of a situation

We should never have gone there in the first place.I didn't care much for the job in the first place.

—used when listing the most important parts of something or the most important reasons for something

I'm not going to tell you because, in the first place, it's none of your business, and in the second place, you would tell everyone else.

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