start out

英 [stɑːt aʊt]

美 [stɑːrt aʊt]

起初是…; 从…开始; 从…着手

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 起初是…
  If someone or somethingstarts out asa particular thing, they are that thing at the beginning although they change later.
  1. Daly was a fast-talking Irish-American who had started out as a salesman...
     达利是个花言巧语的爱尔兰裔美国人，最初是干推销员的。
  2. What started out as fun quickly became hard work.
     起初好玩的事很快就变成了艰苦的工作。
• PHRASAL VERB 从…开始;从…着手
  If youstart out bydoing something, you do it at the beginning of an activity.
  1. We started out by looking at ways in which big projects such as railways could be financed by the private sector...
     我们先研究了让私营企业投资铁路等大型项目的方式。
  2. The child'll start out by making relatively few distinctions in the language.
     孩子开始时不太能辨别语言中的差别。

英英释义

verb

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  1. We began working at dawn
  2. Who will start?
  3. Get working as soon as the sun rises!
  4. The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
  5. He began early in the day
  6. Let's get down to work now
  Synonym:get downbegingetstartset aboutset outcommence
• leave
  1. The family took off for Florida
  Synonym:departpartstartset forthset offset outtake off

双语例句

• We started out by looking at ways in which big projects such as railways could be financed by the private sector
  我们先研究了让私营企业投资铁路等大型项目的方式。
• The child'll start out by making relatively few distinctions in the language.
  孩子开始时不太能辨别语言中的差别。
• You start out with a problem statement.
  开始的时候您需要有一个问题的陈述。
• It was pouring today, so I didn't start out as planned.
  今日大雨倾盆，故未如期启程。
• It marks it as non-computational, meaning all files start out as non-computational.
  并且将其标记为非计算性的，这意味着所有的文件在一开始都是非计算性的。
• When do you believe we should start out this evening?
  你认为我们今天晚上应该什么时间出发？
• I suggest that we start out right away.
  我建议我们立刻起程。
• After your next birthday, you will start out in a new direction.
  在你的下个生日以后，你将步入一个新的方向。
• We'll need to start out early because the journey takes six hours.
  我们要早点出发，因为旅途要他天小时。
• We will start out with user databases for each project.
  我们对于每一个项目都将从用户数据库起步。