in the first instance
常见例句
- You should apply in the first instance to the personnel manager.
首先，你应向人事经理申请。 - In the first instance, a government can meet its obligations by raisingfuture taxes.
首先，一个政府可以在将来用加税来满足其承诺。 - The research team is also working towards making a STAIR cell prototype suited, in the first instance, for small applications, such as mobile phones or MP3 players.
研究团队还在努力制作合适的 STAIR 电池原型，起初用于一些小型电器上，比如移动电话和 MP3 播放器。 - For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.
对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。
耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选 - This is the first instance in which Richard will do what he later describes Mencken doing, using words as weapons.
如同门肯后来所做的,语言第一次被理查当作武器。
耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选 - Collateral should, in the first instance, be posted for the loans made to Moscow last December.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Trying to put Moscow on the dole - It is about to begin international flights—to two Indian cities in the first instance.
ECONOMIST: The Himalayas’ open skies 返回 in the first instance