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

• 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。
• I suggest that we start out right away.
  我建议我们立刻起程。
• 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。
• You can start out with a simple walk around the block and cutting out the sweets in your diet.
  你就可以开始了一个简单的走走，集体和切割出的糖果，在你的饮食习惯。
• An all-too-common mistake in the marathon is to start out too quickly and fade at the end.
  全太在马拉松常见的错误是太快开始和结束时消失。
• 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。
• People set out with a lot of ambition andenthusiasm, and start out with a big goal.
  人们满载雄心和热情，开始时为自己制定了伟大的目标。
• Our new decade should not start out so badly.
  我们不应如此糟糕地开始新的十年。
• 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。
• 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？