单词at the outset
na.: 在开头时
起先
在开始时
adv.at firstinitiallyoriginallyin the beginningto begin with
At the outset, he said the group was planting several seeds, not all of which would flower.
他开始时就曾表示，该集团是在播下一些种子，但并非所有种子都能够开花。
Subtle abstractions emerge that would not have occurred to us at the outset but that pierce to the heart of the matter.
巧妙的抽象能够使得开始不为我们所知的事情核心的元素显露出来。
At the outset the company had no management and operations plan in place, and things have worked out just fine so far.
一开始，这个公司没有管理和业务计划，到现在为止一切进展顺利（inplace）。
As I said at the outset, Kyodo News believes that one of its key missions is to support world peace and a democratic society.
前面已经提到，共同通讯社把促进世界和平与民主社会的发展作为重要的使命之一。
It adds a significant cost to operating a business, and this cost is often impossible to quantify at the outset.
它明显地增加了开店的成本，但这些成本又无法在开始时确定。
They don"t offer the bargains you"d expect -- at least at the outset, when the promoted discounts are usually off the full retail price.
他们不会同意你所期望的价格的，至少在一开始当这个促销的折扣价低于零售价时，商家不会同意的。
Can have never thought, he incredibly will at the outset to beat to call words, only and by far don"t undo the inning of anxiety as well.
可没想到，他居然会率先打来电话，只不过眼下也并非解开心事的好时机。
Let me say at the outset that this proposal is made with no single region, no single class, no single racial or religious group in mind.
请允许我在开头便说明，这一建议的提出不带有对任何个地区、阶级、种族或教派的考虑。
Despite a few difficult days at the outset, however, I now consider my internship to be one of my most valuable educational experiences.
包括少数困难时期的开端，我认为我的实习是最有价值的教育经历。
"But Britain could have won the war by 1942 using the same technology, if the RAF had not rejected Whittle"s designs at the outset. "
但是英国本可在1942用此技术嬴得战争，假如英国皇家空军从一开始不拒绝惠特尔爵士的发明。