in the first instance

1 In the first instance, we would be looking for plant life, rather than'little green men '.

首先我们要寻找植物, 而不是那种 “ 小绿人 ”.

2 He disliked school in the beginning.

起初他不喜欢上学。

3 Why did Harris decide to engage in such self-flagellation in the first instance?

4 Throughout, Klinenberg’s mixture of closeup witness and broad-view sociology is engrossing, and reminds this reader of the late Howard S. Becker’s insistence that the best sociology is always, in the first instance, wide-angle reporting.

5 Firstly, let us deal with the most important issue.

首先让我们来处理最紧要的问题。

6 In the first place, we should solve this problem.

首先，我们应该解决这个问题。

7 In the first instance your child will be seen by an ear, nose and throat specialist.

你的孩子将首先由耳鼻喉专科医生来诊察。

8 Resolution of whether [Section] 2 affords private plaintiffs the ability to challenge state action is best left to the Supreme Court in the first instance.

9 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

起初神创造天地。

10 The heliograph must thus be carefully aligned in the first instance.

回照器在开始时就要小心地对准.

11 In the first instance we had better make sure the calculations are correct.

首先我们最好保证计算是正确的.

12 Capitalism, as Peter Drucker remarked in 1954, is in the first instance about creating value for customers.

13 The post was for one year in the first instance with possible renewal to a further year.

该岗位初始为一年期，有可能会再续聘一年。

14 In the first instance I was inclined to refuse, but then I reconsidered.

起初我倾向于拒绝, 但后来还是重新考虑了.

15 The designer wants to use AI technology to design swimwear in the first instance.

16 In other words, though the language seems to be incredibly capacious, there has been an effort by—in the first instance the Supreme Court, in the second instance the lower courts—to really prevent the use of this statute in ways that are divorced from prior uses.

17 The guru was striving to develop, in the first instance, composure , and in the second, mettle.

起初, 古鲁是努力地去发展沉着的品性, 下一步就是发展出勇气.

18 However, social pressure is still present — family and friends often discourage women from divorcing and Chinese courts tend to rule against divorce in the first instance, in order to maintain social stability.

19 In the first instance, this was my best option.

首先, 这是我最好的选择.

20 States are allowed in the first instance to set the time, place and manner of elections subject only to congressional override.

1 首先

primo first primarily firstly chiefly imprimis primely before everything else beyond all things in the first place begin with to begin with first off pre-eminently first of all above all for one thing for starters first up for a start for openers to be going on with foremost to start with first and foremost

2 第一

first primary premier freshman foremost primo firstly chiefly imprimis numero uno in the first place to begin with prot- to start with principal proto- initial opening first of all come first first up