1 PHRASAL VERB 起初是… If someone or something starts out as a particular thing, they are that thing at the beginning although they change later. 起初是… [Also V P n as n]
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Daly was a fast-talking Irish-American who had started out as a salesman. [VERB PREP. + as]
达利是个花言巧语的爱尔兰裔美国人，最初是干推销员的。
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What started out as fun quickly became hard work. [VERB PREP. + as]
起初好玩的事很快就变成了艰苦的工作。
2 PHRASAL VERB 从…开始;从…着手 If you start out by doing something, you do it at the beginning of an activity. 从…开始;从…着手
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We started out by looking at ways in which big projects such as railways could be financed by the private sector. [V P + by]
我们先研究了让私营企业投资铁路等大型项目的方式。
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The child'll start out by making relatively few distinctions in the language. [V P by -ing]
孩子开始时不太能辨别语言中的差别。
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