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单词 from scratch
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from scratch
b. The starting-point in a handicap of a competitor who receives no odds; sometimes colloquially used elliptically for such a competitor. Also figurative; esp. in from scratch, from a position of no advantage, knowledge, influence, etc., from nothing.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > position of player in competition
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > from the beginning > from a position of no advantage
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1867 Athlete for 1866 9 W. Collett, scratch 1.
1876 Bicycle Jrnl. 18 Aug. 7/1 Mr. Tom Sabin, of the Coventry Bicycle Club, has won, during last week, three races from scratch.
1886 Field 31 July 182/2 In the [lawn tennis] match between Messrs. G. Butler (owes 15) and E. A. Butler (scratch), the odd set again had to be resorted to.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 439 A poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny.
1936 Economist 2 May 233/1 Nazi Germany, starting her rapid re-armament ‘from scratch’ in 1933, was fortunate enough to have a surplus capacity in all sections of her heavy industries.
1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air ii. v. 103 We'd no fishing tackle of any kind, not even a pin or a bit of string. We had to start from scratch.
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer v. 77 He took one look at her and thought: If I want that, I must begin all over again right from scratch.
1957 L. F. R. Williams State of Israel 53 Another branch of communications which has been built up from scratch to a degree of efficiency.
1962 Guardian 21 Mar. 2/5 The whole Treasury block could..have been rebuilt from scratch for the money.
1978 Peace News 25 Aug. 7/2 The daily routine was a crash programme of tuition provided by civilians, mainly Russian or other Slavic emigrés, in Russian from scratch to A-level standard, which was achieved in 10 months.
1979 Fortune 29 Jan. 77 NASA is not exactly starting from scratch out there in space; it is building on promising experiments done on prior space flights.
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