California's first constitutional convention took place in 1849, before California was even admitted to the Union.
加州的首次制宪会议召开于1849年，那时该州还未加入联邦。
Even winning the lottery requires you to take action by purchasing the lottery ticket in the first place.
即便是中彩票，你也得首先有买彩票的行动。
Should we even buy in the first place?
实际上我们应该在第一个地方买吗？
I reluctantly went with him, even though I desperately wanted to stay in the first place that really seemed like home.
我不情愿地跟随他回去了，即使我是多么想留下，留在这个我人生中第一次体验到家的感觉的地方。
Fukuyama says he does not allow his children to drink milk in the first place, even before this incident or otherwise.
福山哲郎回应说，他从最初就不允许他的子女喝奶，甚至在这次事件发生之前，或是其他任何情况下。
One factor may be unconscious biases that could keep women physicists from advancing-and may even prevent women from going into physics in the first place.
有一个因素——无意识的偏见——可能就是影响女性物理学家进步，甚至使女性无法成为物理学翘楚的罪魁祸首。
They want sound, reproducible, evidence-based approaches to solve such problems and, even better, to anticipate and avoid such problems in the first place.
他们想要采用一种健全的、可再生的、基于证据的方法来解决此类问题，甚至在第一时间预计和避免此类问题。
Corina's brain is the most beautiful object that exists, even more beautiful than Corina herself, for it allows her to perceive beauty, have a self, and know about existence in the first place.
科瑞娜的大脑是存在着的最美妙的物体，甚至比科瑞娜还要美，因为它让她认知美丽、拥有自我、在一开始就了解实体的存在。
Even if it's as small as sucking down a few too many cocktails when you may have told him you 'don't drink much,' he'll wonder if he sized you up all wrong in the first place.
即使只是那种你告诉他“我不太会喝酒”而又恰恰多喝了几杯鸡尾酒这样的小事，他都会怀疑自己在初次见你的时候是不是对你整个估计错误。
Absurdly, some private-equity firms even charge portfolio companies fees for helping them refinance their debt—when they're the ones to pile on leverage in the first place.
更为荒谬的是，一些私募机构甚至要为帮助证券公司为他们的债务重新筹集资金，而一开始私募机构才是对证券公司债务的施压者。
What if you didn't even see the anomaly in the first place — even if it was as glaring as a chest-thumping gorilla?
但如果你根本没发现异常信息的存在——即使它明显的像一头捶胸的大猩猩？
They take setbacks as proof that they were never meant to achieve anything in the first place, and that they were stupid to even try.
他们用挫折证明自己一开始就不打算取得成功，同时也证明他们愚蠢到要去尝试。
The fish doesn't even KNOW it's wet in the first place.
但鱼根本就不知道它们一开始就是周身潮湿的呀。
Even if it changed drastically for the better, If you weren’t happy in the first place, I very much doubt that you’ll be happy after the change.
即使为了快乐大幅度的转变，如果你一开始就不开心，我很不确定改变之后的你是否会感到快乐。
Place first in a three province wide chemistry test. Of which I didn’t study or was even taught much of the material beforehand.
在三省的化学联考中取得优秀的成绩，其实其中的很多内容我都没有学习过。
You are forced to find reasons -- perhaps even imagine them -- for why the project could never have succeeded in the first place.
您被迫去寻找原因 ——也许甚至设想 ——为什么早先项目不会成功。
A long feature list looks great to the person who's thinking about buying the software, but until they realise that they need or want it in the first place, it'll barely even register.
一长条功能列表对想买软件的人来说看起来是不错，但直到他们首先意识到他们需要或想要软件，他们才刚刚注册。
At the same time, though, you also were concerned about whether that person even received your request in the first place.
虽如此，同时，你还得首先担心对方是否收到了请求。
Even better, they may be discouraged from entering in the first place.
情况好一点的话，他们可能一开始就被劝阻了。
Taylor was not only able to trace the lunar water's origins, but he was the one who discovered that the moon even had water in the first place.
泰勒不仅是可以追踪到月球水的起源而且是发现月球最初甚至有水的人。
Quiet meditation, even for a few minutes, can help us find the reasons why we chose to be here in the first place and let them generate the passion that we lost from the stress of everyday life.
就算只是静静的沉思数分钟，也可以帮助我们找到我们来上大学的原因，重拾那些因为生活压力而丢失的激情。
Even if they never saw it in the first place.
即使他们开始并未曾发现。
It may even be the case that no architecture was designed in the first place!
甚至可能的情况是本来没设计架构！
If you don't have the money to pay cash for something in the first place, you probably don't want to make it even more expensive by adding interest to the price.
如果开始你就没有钱来为买某东西付现金，你可能不希望再在其价格上加上利息让它更贵。
In the first place, even if the RMB is undervalued by 25%, and if it is appreciating by 8-9% a year in real terms, we can't conclude therefore that in three years the RMB will be correctly valued.
首先，尽管如果人民币被低估了25%，并且如果真实价值每年升值8- 9%，我们不能得出结论说在三年中，人民币将纠正其价值。
In the first place, even if the RMB is undervalued by 25%, and if it is appreciating by 8-9% a year in real terms, we can't conclude therefore that in three years the RMB will be correctly valued.
首先，尽管如果人民币被低估了25%，并且如果真实价值每年升值8- 9%，我们不能得出结论说在三年中，人民币将纠正其价值。
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