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1. They started out this morning.
他们今天上午出发了。
2. He started out to write a novel.
他着手写一部长篇小说。
1. 开始时打算,本来想要;动身：go ahead先请;请开始吧;继续 | go off爆炸; (闹钟、雷)开始响起来 | start out开始时打算,本来想要;动身
2. 出发：start on 开始 | start out 出发 | start page number at 起始页号
3. start out的解释
3. 开始时打算;本来想要：standards of admission入学标准 | start out 开始时打算;本来想要 | stem from 源于
4. 出发,动身：150. set out出发,开始,装饰,陈列,测定,宣布,移植,陈述 | 151. start out出发,动身 | 152. set up设立,创立
1. 起初是…
If someone or something starts out as a particular thing, they are that thing at the beginning although they change later.
e.g. Daly was a fast-talking Irish-American who had started out as a salesman...
达利是个花言巧语的爱尔兰裔美国人，最初是干推销员的。
e.g. What started out as fun quickly became hard work.
起初好玩的事很快就变成了艰苦的工作。
2. 从…开始;从…着手
If you start out by doing something, you do it at the beginning of an activity.
e.g. We started out by looking at ways in which big projects such as railways could be financed by the private sector...
我们先研究了让私营企业投资铁路等大型项目的方式。
e.g. The child''ll start out by making relatively few distinctions in the language.
孩子开始时不太能辨别语言中的差别。
verb
1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
e.g. We began working at dawn
Who will start?
Get working as soon as the sun rises!
The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
He began early in the day
Let''s get down to work now
Synonym: get downbegingetstartset aboutset outcommence
2. leave
e.g. The family took off for Florida