Should we even buy in the first place?

实际上我们应该在第一个地方买吗？

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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。

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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？

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Most Americans think decline can be halted, if it even exists in the first place.

BBC: Is the US caught in the slow lane?

However, there are a whole host of scientific and engineering challenges that need to be overcome, and even identified in the first place because nobody has ever built one of these reactors, and hence the plans are still only on the drawing board.

FORBES: Thorium Nuclear Power -- A Lesson From Norway

Other schools may be doing this, but the results are either not easily accessible (which defeats the purpose of even publishing it in the first place) or are not made public at all.

FORBES: Ignorance Is Not Bliss