•The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority.管理部门似乎并不认为应该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。

•Mending the lights is a priority task (= more important than other jobs).修灯这个任务更重要。

•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).公事显然应该置于私事之前。