to begin with

英 [tu bɪˈɡɪn wɪð]

美 [tu bɪˈɡɪn wɪð]

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, let us examine a natural process that we have all observed.
  首先，让我们来考虑一下我们所有观察过的自然过程。
• 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。
• To begin with, you need to develop the type trees required for these two maps.
  首先，您需要开发这两个映射需要的类型树。
• To begin with, you have confused two different things.
  首先，你已经把两种东西弄混了。
• 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, 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。
• 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, we had very little support, but later on people began to rally to us.
  起初支持我们者甚寡，后来人们逐渐团结到我们这一边来了。
• 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。
• Today I would like to begin with a story.
  今天我将以一个故事开始我的演讲。