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

• It was pouring today, so I didn't start out as planned.
  今日大雨倾盆，故未如期启程。
• As a nice way to start out the New Year, why not clean up your jewelry box?
  作为一个很好的方式开始了在新的一年，为什么不清理你的首饰盒？
• Start out by trying a simple PHP script on the command line.
  开始时先在命令行中尝试一个简单的PHP脚本。
• Our new decade should not start out so badly.
  我们不应如此糟糕地开始新的十年。
• The rain will let up soon and we can start out.
  雨不久就会停，咱们可以出发了。
• You start out with a problem statement.
  开始的时候您需要有一个问题的陈述。
• Though you can use sneakers to start out, it's not a very good idea.
  尽管你可以穿运动鞋就开工，但这不是个好主意。
• 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 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。
• 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。