to begin with

常见例句

雙語例句

• To begin with, moral values in America are like those in any culture.
  最開始，道德價值在美國就像在任何其它的文化一樣。
• To begin with, he was honest; in power his lifestyle was as modest and bookish as before.
  首先，他是個誠實的人，就算有了權力，他的生活方式仍如以前那麽低調，那麽書不離手。
• To begin with, the government must act with conviction, rather than wish the problem away.
  首先，政府行動時必須要有堅定的信心而不是希望問題自己解決。

原聲例句

• The Union navy was bigger to begin with and grew much faster.
• It's going to have some volume, temperature to begin with, and then we're going to do something to it.
  氣躰有一定的，躰積與溫度，現在我們。
  麻省理工公開課 - 熱力學與動力學課程節選
• How can you marry a Latvian to begin with, if you're a Russian and marry somebody who was a commoner?
  首先,一個俄國人怎麽能娶一個拉脫維亞人,何況女方還是個平民
  耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節選

權威例句

• I'm going to be losing poll workers and they're very hard to find, to begin with.
  NPR: Local Election Officials Oppose Paper Ballots
• The odds of him becoming president, or even his party's nominee, were never very good to begin with.
  NPR: End of the Road for Frist; What Next for Hastert?
• This argument rests on a false assumption, that the Middle East was stable to begin with.
  NPR: Bush, Ahmadinejad Air Competing Views at U.N.
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