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

• 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？
• They have decided when to start out.
  他们已经决定了出发的时间。
• 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。
• I suggest that we start out right away.
  我建议我们立刻起程。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。