单词 | start out |
释义 | start out 1. phrasal verb If someone or something starts out as a particular thing, they are that thing at the beginning although they change later. Daly was a fast-talking Irish-American who had started out as a salesman. [VERB PARTICLE + as] What started out as fun quickly became hard work. [VERB PARTICLE + as] 2. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for start If you start out by doing something, you do it at the beginning of an activity. We started out by looking at ways in which big projects could be financed by the private sector. [V P + by] The child'll start out by making relatively few distinctions in the language. [V P by -ing] |
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