This problem seemed to be complex in the first instance, but it could be easily solved.

这个问题乍一看似乎很复杂，但其实很容易解决。

youdao

Other journalists may well see an angle or detail in the document that we were not aware of in the first instance.

其它的新闻记者可能从这些文件中看到我们先前并没有注意到的独特的视角和细节。

youdao

After a short delay, the software detects that another instance is already running, so it shuts down, and the artifact is opened in the first instance.

在短短的延迟之后，软件会探测到另一个实例已经启动，这样它就会自动关闭，工件会在第一个实例中打开。

youdao

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Collateral should, in the first instance, be posted for the loans made to Moscow last December.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Trying to put Moscow on the dole

In the first instance, the two Germanys actually recognized and treated each other as separate nations.

CNN: FIERY FACE-OFF

In the first instance, further animal tests are needed to determine if it is safe.

BBC: Clue to treating nerve pain