0 something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things -- 优先考虑的事
The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority. 管理部门似乎并不认为应优先考虑办公室安全问题。
My first/top priority is to find somewhere to live. 我首先要考虑的是找个地方住。
You have to learn to get your priorities right/straight (= decide which are the most important jobs or problems and deal with them first). 你必须学会先处理最重要的事。
Repairing the plumbing is a priority task (= more important than other jobs). 修好水管是当务之急。
Banks normally give priority to large businesses when deciding on loans (= they deal with them first because they consider them most important). 银行在发放贷款时通常优先考虑大企业。
Official business requirements obviously take/have priority over personal requests (= official business matters will be dealt with first). 公事显然应放在私事之上。
We need to establish a new set of priorities.
If agriculture were given priority, the country would easily be able to feed itself.
The establishment of new areas of employment is a priority.
However, some participants reported that cancer had no impact on their life priorities.
Each agency must set priorities, since all requests will not be funded.
Underlying all these priorities is the problem of synthesis, since not all the priorities mentioned above point in the same direction.
