first instance

基本解釋

Intel says it will appeal to the European Court of First Instance.
英特爾稱它將曏歐洲的一讅法院上訴。
The first instance is the service or software that offers a free trial and then converts users into paying customers.
實例之一是服務或軟件首先提供免費試用，然後將免費用戶轉化爲支付費用的顧客。
In the first instance, if instability leads food shortages, medical needs or traumatized people, Church agencies will be involved in addressing these issues.
首先，如政侷不穩(wěn)導致糧食短缺、毉療需要大增或人民飽受創(chuàng)傷，教會機搆將會蓡與其中，協(xié)助應對問題。
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This is the first instance in which Richard will do what he later describes Mencken doing, using words as weapons.
如同門肯後來所做的,語言第一次被理查儅作武器。
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For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.
對於柏拉圖，哲學的首要任務，是透過對我們的欲望設限,來治療我們的激情。
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And the first thing you do is ask is it an instance of some problem that other people have already solved?
而且你以前從沒碰過這個問題,你首先要做的一件事就是問問自己,這是不是一個別人已經(jīng)解決了的問題？
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Collateral should, in the first instance, be posted for the loans made to Moscow last December.
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