head start

英 [ˌhed ˈstɑːt]

美 [ˌhed ˈstɑːrt]

n.  起步前的优势

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牛津词典

noun

• 起步前的优势
  an advantage that sb already has before they start doing sth
  1. Being able to speak French gave her a head start over the other candidates.
     会说法语使她比其他候选人占优势。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 领先;占先
  If you have ahead start onother people, you have an advantage over them in something such as a competition or race.
  1. Hungarian businessmen have had a head start over most of their Eastern European neighbors...
     匈牙利商人已经领先于东欧邻国的大多数同行了。
  2. A good education gives your child a head start in life.
     良好的教育会让你的孩子在人生的起跑线上比别人领先一步。

英英释义

noun

• the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
  1. with an hour's start he will be hard to catch
  Synonym:start

双语例句

• Even when he is sick, he works; even with his head start she caught up with him.
  即使在生病的时候，他还是坚持工作；尽管他领先过，她还是赶上他了。
• Early prototypes during the inception and elaboration phases helped us confirm these choices and gave us a good head start on training, API familiarization, and development.
  在初始和细化阶段的早期原型帮助我们确认了这些技术的选择并给了我们在培训、API熟悉和开发上的良好开始。
• A good education gives your child a head start in life.
  良好的教育会让你的孩子在人生的起跑线上比别人领先一步。
• Just trying to give my man a head start, that's all.
  我只是想给我的朋友一个机会，就这么回事。
• And he's got a three-day head start on us.
  而且他比我们早开始了3天。
• They have a head start in this because they know what ACE inhibitors look like.
  研究人员在这一点上占有先机，因为他们已经了解ACE抑制剂的情况。
• It proved a brilliant initiative that gave Michelin a head start in the guidebook and road map publishing business.
  这被证明是一项明智的举措，它让米其林在旅行指南和行车路线图出版领域占据了领先位置。
• You are rested and wake up early to get a head start.
  你休息好，早点醒来就第一个开始。
• Let's get a head start in decoration the house by getting up early.
  我们早点起来，装饰房子要有一个好开端。
• And I said: I benefited so much from the war on poverty. I was in Head Start.
  于是，我说：我以前就是从贫困战中获益的人。