英 [ˈaʊtset] 美 [ˈaʊtset]
n. 开始，开端
outset /ˈaʊtˌsɛt/ CET4 TEM4
习语 If something happens at the outset of an event, process, or period of time, it happens at the beginning of it. If something happens from the outset it happens from the beginning and continues to happen. 在开始时; 从一开始
Decide at the outset what kind of learning programme you want to follow.
一开始就要定下你的学习计划。
the time at which something is supposed to begin
同义词： beginning / commencement / first / get-go / start / kickoff / starting time / showtime / offset
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开始；开端
beginning / threshold / opening / conception / origin
Decide at the outset what kind of learning programme you want to follow.
一开始就要定下你的学习计划。
I never understood why he didn't just accede to our demands at the outset.
我从不能理解为什么他不一开始就答应我们的请求。
The president has played a shrewd diplomatic game because from the outset he called for direct talks.
总统玩了一场精明的外交游戏，因为从一开始他就要求进行直接对话。
Syria has been allied with Tehran since the outset of the war between Iran and Iraq in 1980.
VOA : standard.2009.03.18
We have a strained image of the composition of the poem at its very outset and we have an image of someone writing as if he were participating in a race.
如果一开始我们就对诗歌的创作有一种不友善的印象,那么我们就会对诗人有一种印象,就好像他正在参加一场竞赛。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
The fact that the death here in Lycidas is the death of a young, virginal poet at the very outset of his career, as you can imagine, resonates in a lot of powerful ways.
利西达斯》中的死者是一个年轻，还未失童真，事业刚要起步的年轻人，可以想象，这与弥尔顿有很强烈的共鸣。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Let me say at the outset that I firmly believe that results and impact are what count.
VOA : standard.2010.03.29
"We need to recognize at the outset that what we do to animals from their perspective certainly, and probably from ours is morally wrong and unacceptable, and that it's really important to follow through on all these exciting new leads into ways of doing research without using animals."
VOA : standard.2010.02.16
Unsurprisingly, exercisers also were somewhat more fit than they were at the study's outset.
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Some family offices, like New York's TAG Associates, have served multiple families from the outset.
Many people, including me, thought that the committee had no chance of success from the outset.
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