to begin with

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刚开始; 首先; 最初; 第一

英英释义

adv

• before now
  1. why didn't you tell me in the first place?
  Synonym:in the first placeearlierin the beginningoriginally

双语例句

• Frankly, I should never have done that to begin with.
  坦白说，我开始，就不该那么做。
• I never loved you for your looks to begin with.
  我爱你从来不是就因为你的外表。
• To begin with, my English teacher spoke too quickly and I can't understand her.
  一开始，我的英语老师说的太快了，我不能理解她。
• 'What do scientists you've spoken with think about that?' — 'Well, to begin with, they doubt it's going to work.'
  “跟你聊过的科学家是怎么看的？”——“嗯，首先，他们怀疑这能否行得通。”
• If you are hoping to form a new relationship tread carefully and slowly to begin with
  如果你希望建立新的关系，首先要慎重行事，不要着急。
• We have an uneasy relationship with them to begin with.
  一开始，我们和孩子们的关系就不融洽。
• Truth be told, they were freaks to begin with.
  不过说真的，她们一开始就已经没有了理智了。
• To begin with, we need an alarm_event_t structure, zeroed out.
  首先，我们需要一个alarmeventt结构，对它清零。
• I always give new workers a short contract to begin with, as I want to see how they measure up before I employ them on a lasting basis.
  雇用工人时我先同他们订个短期合同，我要看看他们的能力再决定是否长期雇用。
• We have therefore decided to begin with preferment to ecclesiastical dignities.
  因此，我们决定开始与升迁到教会尊严。