first instance

基本解释

Intel says it will appeal to the European Court of First Instance.
英特尔称它将向欧洲的一审法院上诉。
The first instance is the service or software that offers a free trial and then converts users into paying customers.
实例之一是服务或软件首先提供免费试用，然后将免费用户转化为支付费用的顾客。
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，如政局不稳导致粮食短缺、医疗需要大增或人民饱受创伤，教会机构将会参与其中，协助应对问题。
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This is the first instance in which Richard will do what he later describes Mencken doing, using words as weapons.
如同门肯后来所做的,语言第一次被理查当作武器。
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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.
对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。
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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?
而且你以前从没碰过这个问题,你首先要做的一件事就是问问自己,这是不是一个别人已经解决了的问题？
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Collateral should, in the first instance, be posted for the loans made to Moscow last December.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Trying to put Moscow on the dole