| 释义 |
to begin with1At first.To begin with I always rested....- I had no roadmaps, and I had a bad sense of direction to begin with.
- There were a few teething problems to begin with (I thought keyboards were standard, for instance), but Im really beginning to love it.
1.1Used to introduce the first of several points: such a fate is unlikely to befall him: to begin with, his is a genuine talent...- Well, any discussion of this would have to begin with how stupid and dumb they are.
- I really want to ask the press why the law and government policy is necessary to begin with if we do not observe or apply it.
- He was in the wrong for trying to push me out of the way to begin with.
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