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

• I'll start out with two of the more interesting coupling metrics, namely afferent coupling and efferent coupling.
  我将从两个比较有趣的耦合度量开始，即传入耦合和传出耦合。
• I thought I would start out at youth level, which I did.
  我想我将会在青少年队开始执教，我也是这样开始的。
• You would have to start out differently.
  你必须有一个不同的开始。
• Question: So tell us the training you went through, to start out with?
  问：那么告诉我们，你所经历的训练，是以什么开始的？
• Yeah, west and east. Ok, now first you start out in California.
  是的，西部和东部。好啦！你将从加利福尼亚出发。
• Our new decade should not start out so badly.
  我们不应如此糟糕地开始新的十年。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I suggest that we start out right away.
  我建议我们立刻起程。