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

• To begin with, the weather was bad, but it improved later in the week.
  这周开始天气很差，但后来好转了。
• Frankly, I should never have done that to begin with.
  坦白说，我开始，就不该那么做。
• 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。
• It was great to begin with but now it's difficult.
  一开始非常好，但现在可就难了。
• '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。”
• 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。
• I checked out and it's not like I had big dreams to begin with.
  我仔细检查，并不是像我要开始一个很大的梦想。
• To begin with, I will tell you how to increase your bandwidth speed by20%.
  首先，我会告诉你如何提高您的带宽速度由20%。
• First of all, we need to begin with what to govern.
  首先，我们要看要治理的是什么。
• To begin with I did not understand the judge's decision but when I read the reports of the case everything fell into place.
  最初，我不理解法官的判决，但在我读了这个案件的报告后，一切都清楚了。