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

VOA: special.2009.05.29

And he's going to have to rectify the circumstances that made his destruction of the earth necessary in the first place.

他不得不修正,他认为有必要毁灭人类的情形。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The reason I got to be a soccer team captain in the first place was because my coach said,

我最初之所以成为球队队长是因为我的教练说，

足球部队长的领导力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

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

"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

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

If you want to know the goddam truth, that makes an actor in the first place.

如果你想要知道真相，那在最开始成就以为演员。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

We'd all be better off dead, " or perhaps more accurately still, " all be better off never having been born in the first place."

我们死了会更好，“或者更准确地说，“没有出生会更好“

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

Why would the food industry want to introduce Trans fat in the first place?

最初食品业为什么要引进反式脂肪呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

It was the first place where the concept of stem cells was developed, in that if one looks carefully one can find immature cells in the bone marrow.

这是干细胞概念的发祥地,如果仔细观察造血系统,就能找到骨髓中的未成熟细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

VOA: standard.other

In the first place, what I want to impress upon you is that the sovereign is for Hobbes less a person than it is or he is an office.

首先，我要让你们明白，霍布斯所论及的君主,不只是一个拥有公职权力的人,更不是一个普通单纯的个人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

To others, he is the financial industry insider who facilitated reckless corporate risk-taking that placed the national and global economy in grave peril in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

Later on when times are more secure, there's trade for grain as well for everything else, but when you're settling a place in the first place, you can't rely on somebody bringing it to you.

在之后相对安定的年代,有了粮食及其他各种物品交易,但当你刚开始在某地定居时,并不能指望有人为你供给必需品

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"This was the first place we had, my grandfather built it.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

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

His latest statement focused on the need to correct flaws in the aviation security system that allowed the would-be bomber to board the Detroit-bound flight in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

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

NATO has nearly 60,000 troops in Afghanistan, but few alliance members wholeheartedly support the deployment, with many questioning what the North Atlantic alliance is doing there in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

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

You can't focus completely on pleasing them because you'll never win and then you're excluding a whole other world of people who weren't aware of the comic in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

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

"They have seen what happens when patients do not come in for regular check-ups or screenings because either their insurance company does not cover it, or they cannot afford insurance in the first place,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

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

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