"In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

OK, so now the question is, how do we know the first place that this is a suitable reductant?

好的，现在的问题是，我们如何能知道第一步中,镁是一个合适的还原剂？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

to be able to provide value to those who made the art in the first place.

向首先创造出艺术的人提供价值的能力。

不能非法下载 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This student from the state of Texas was the first place winner of last week's National Geographic Bee.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Galileo's only using, of course, his telescope in the first place because his human capacity for vision is insufficient to see the truths of the heavens.

他唯一一次用到望远镜,是因为仅凭人类的视力,并不能够看到天堂的真理所在。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

First place went to a design for a skyscraper jail made by architecture students in Malaysia.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

In the first place, he judges the people to be more reliable, as he tells us, than the great.

首先，他断定人们更为可靠,正如他告诉我们的，比起大人物们来说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In nineteen seventy-eight, the islands were the first place named to the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

You don't face any facts. This same damned attitude of not facing facts is what got you into this messy state of mind in the first place, and it can't possibly get you out of it."

你没有面对现实，这个不面对现实的态度,在最开始就使你的心变乱了,也无法让你抽身出来“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She has led the Tennessee Lady Vols to first place in eight N.C.A.A.national championships.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

So that means it's not possible, if we've made these stipulations in the first place, to have a case where l equals 1.

这说明我们之前的假设,ｌ等于１不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Right now, Jeff Gordon is in first place in the Sprint Cup series.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

That was the whole reason for entering society in the first place, to protect the right to property.

这就是当初人们加入社会的初衷，为了保护财产权。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

New Zealand shared first place last year with Denmark and Sweden.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

In the first place, by and until the twentieth century, I guess, human beings tended to stay put.

首先,我觉得,20世纪以前,人们都喜欢定居

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Both teams won first place and received gold medals.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

In the first place, notice that sometimes story can be the dominant in obviously formal terms.

有时候故事明显,会占支配地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"And this will require that we continue to tackle the underlying problems that caused this turmoil in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

That's including me and that's why I went into the subject in the first place cause I was aware of how little I really know of this.

那也包括了我,所以我首先研究这个主题,因为我意识到,我对这个主题知之甚少。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Particularly employees who got them into this mess in the first place. I think it is an outrage."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

I believed in the mission of Afghanstan in the first place.

从一开始我就相信阿富汗任务的必要性。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Actual modernization,says Nemtsov, is impossible without naming and removing the people responsible for the stagnation and authoritarian rule in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Tabachnyk has raised eyebrows with statements that suggest western and eastern Ukraine should be separated, or should never have been united in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Well, now I go through code very much like what I did for max val in the first place. I check whether it's 0, et cetera, et cetera.

现在我会捋一遍代码,就像我之前捋maxval函数一样,我会检查它是不是0等等等等。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"We don't want the girl to get on the plane in the first place."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

How did you get into that field in the first place?

你最初怎么进入这个领域的呢？

什么是认知科学？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He's just gonna trace your scent there.It's the first place he's gonna look.

VOA: standard.other

For Stevens, when modernity takes away God what it does is unveil the poet's Godlike powers, a power to create the world through imagination, imagination which created God in the first place.

对他而言，当现代性取代了上帝的地位,它所起的作用就是解释诗人所有的神明般的力量，这是一种在想象中重塑世界的力量，这种想象最初创造出了上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Why literacy in the first place?

为什么我们一开始就强调文化素养呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选