单词 | to start with |
释义 | > as lemmasto start with —— to start with —— 1. intransitive. To take or assume as one's point of departure in a line of reasoning, argument, etc.; = to start from —— at Phrasal verbs 2. Frequently in the progressive in a non-finite clause indicating the point of departure for an activity, as starting with ——. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > argument, source of conviction > use as basis [verb] ground?1531 predicate1754 to start with ——1820 to start from ——1827 to start from ——1827 1820 Trial R. M. Goodwin 30 I start with the assumption that when the knock-down blow was given, Goodwin had no weapon in his hand. 1849 T. Callaway Diss. Dislocations & Fractures 5 To start with certain præcognita. 1883 Cent. Mag. Apr. 900/1 I believe that, in this case, starting with the crude fish-gorge, I can show, step by step, the complete sequence of the fish-hook. 1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria vii. 167 I started with the presupposition that..this paranoia must contain unconscious thoughts and repressed reminiscences which have to be brought to consciousness..by overcoming a certain resistance. 1976 Listener 29 Jan. 119/1 Let there be a 25 per cent cut in serious music introductions, starting with an absolute ban on [etc.]. 1989 T. Parker Place called Bird xii. 146 Right, well we can start with saying we're talking in my office here..and yes, that I'm the SRS officer who deals with Bird. 2005 Yoga Apr. 50/1 He started with the concept that new clothes needed to be designed to represent the west-coast lifestyle and came up with a line of clothes that [etc.]. 2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 8 She hated most things about the Black Plumed Bird, starting with the 1950s' clothes she wore unironically in defiance of trend and fashion. 2. intransitive. In parenthetical use as to start with: (a) used to emphasize the first or most significant of a list of reasons, opinions, etc. (= for a start at start n.2 Phrases 10); (b) to begin with, initially, in the first place. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > to begin with to start with ——1838 as (also for) a starter1846 for a start1874 for starters1952 for (also as) openers1966 1838 Fraser's Mag. June 699/1 What is a poor devil to do, who..not only has not good looks to start with, but happens to be..‘a very plain man’? 1865 M. Oliphant Agnes I. xxii. 280 Her mind..was of a much higher order than his to start with. 1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen I. viii. 139 Every window that could be spared, and they were not abundant to start with, had been blocked up on account of the window-tax. 1939 Collier's 23 Sept. 4/3 Anybody who would fight for that dump is slap-happy to start with. 2001 J. D. Watson Genes, Girls & Gamow xxviii. 235 This was not the right time for him to get married. To start with, he could not afford a wife and child. 2010 Field Feb. 109/3 To start with nothing seemed to happen, but then I realised that the bird was ‘getting bigger’. to start with 2. intransitive. In parenthetical use as to start with: (a) used to emphasize the first or most significant of a list of reasons, opinions, etc. (= for a start at start n.2 Phrases 10); (b) to begin with, initially, in the first place. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > to begin with to start with ——1838 as (also for) a starter1846 for a start1874 for starters1952 for (also as) openers1966 1838 Fraser's Mag. June 699/1 What is a poor devil to do, who..not only has not good looks to start with, but happens to be..‘a very plain man’? 1865 M. Oliphant Agnes I. xxii. 280 Her mind..was of a much higher order than his to start with. 1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen I. viii. 139 Every window that could be spared, and they were not abundant to start with, had been blocked up on account of the window-tax. 1939 Collier's 23 Sept. 4/3 Anybody who would fight for that dump is slap-happy to start with. 2001 J. D. Watson Genes, Girls & Gamow xxviii. 235 This was not the right time for him to get married. To start with, he could not afford a wife and child. 2010 Field Feb. 109/3 To start with nothing seemed to happen, but then I realised that the bird was ‘getting bigger’. < as lemmas |
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