美 [tu bɪˈɡɪn wɪð]
首先：指在开始时，用于引出第一个要点或观点。
before now
同义词： in the first place / earlier / in the beginning / originally
... attach to 附属于，隶属于;使依恋，使喜爱 to begin with 首先，第一 break down 损坏;(健康等)垮掉，崩溃 ...
... attach to 附属于，隶属于;使依恋，使喜爱 to begin with 首先，第一 break down 损坏;(健康等)垮掉，崩溃 ...
... first of all 首先 to begin with 一开始 later on 后来、随 ...
... pay back 偿还； to begin with 最初；刚开始； compared with 与…相比；和…比起来； ...
To begin with he was Prince Charming.
刚开始他就像是白马王子。
He spoke well to begin with, but then started rambling and repeating himself.
开始他说得很好，但是后来开始闲扯，一句话翻来覆去地讲。
"What do scientists you've spoken with think about that?"—"Well, to begin with, they doubt it's going to work."
“和你交谈过的科学家们对此怎么看？”——“噢，首先，他们怀疑这是否会奏效。”
The Union navy was bigger to begin with and grew much faster.
VOA : special.2009.09.10
It's going to have some volume, temperature to begin with, and then we're going to do something to it.
气体有一定的，体积与温度，现在我们。
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How can you marry a Latvian to begin with, if you're a Russian and marry somebody who was a commoner?
首先,一个俄国人怎么能娶一个拉脱维亚人,何况女方还是个平民
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But if a medication can block the capsaicin-like molecule from reaching the neuron, it could stop the brain from ever registering there was any pain to begin with.
VOA : standard.2010.05.04
"This notion that you do not want U.S.firms going overseas is really a mistake to begin with, because in many cases the operations abroad and the operations at home are actually complimentary to each other,".
VOA : standard.2009.05.04
I'm going to be losing poll workers and they're very hard to find, to begin with.
The odds of him becoming president, or even his party's nominee, were never very good to begin with.
This argument rests on a false assumption, that the Middle East was stable to begin with.