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 suggest that we start out right away.
  我建议我们立刻起程。
• You start out with a problem statement.
  开始的时候您需要有一个问题的陈述。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• When will we start out tomorrow morning.
  明天早上我们该何时出发。
• We will start out with user databases for each project.
  我们对于每一个项目都将从用户数据库起步。
• 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 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。