in the first instance

常见例句

双语例句

• 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。

原声例句

• 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。
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• 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。
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权威例句

• 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
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