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n. 着手, 开头, 最初



    outset
    [ noun ]
    the time at which something is supposed to begin
    <noun.time>
    they got an early startshe knew from the get-go that he was the man for her


    Outset \Out"set`\, n.
    A setting out, starting, or beginning. ``The outset of a
    political journey.'' --Burke.

    Giving a proper direction to this outset of life. --J.
    Hawes.

    1. "So there was a clarity of understanding from the outset and I think that he recognizes in her a determined, successful political leader.
    2. Standard Chartered settled a net 4 higher at 704p ex-dividend, while Cable and Wireless, which derives more than half of its earnings from Hong Kong, settled only a fraction off at 712p, having fallen to 698p at the outset of trading.
    3. Eastern Airlines announced its first cut in scheduled daily flights since it began its reorganization last March at the outset of a long strike, and said it might lay off some employees.
    4. Tokyo had rejected these demands from the outset, on the grounds that they amounted to numerical import targets.
    5. At the outset of the campaign, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey was touted as Hollywood's leading man for 1992, in part because of his onetime romance with actress Debra Winger.
    6. At that time, most said interest rates would drop slightly early in 1986 but would end the year a little higher than at the outset.
    7. The inventory plans, which Gulf States' now labels "rate-base exclusion plans," don't guarantee recovery of costs "but it's so much better than permanently writing it off" from the outset, a Gulf States spokeswoman said.
    8. In the Phillips case, a federal appeals court found evidence last year that Mr. Pickens "had no intention from the outset" to honor his repeated statement that he was not interested in and would not accept greenmail.
    9. Touche Ross had been brought in as a monitor for the project at the outset and helped to produce the cost estimates used to justify the project.
    10. Another option is to scramble Sky Sport and charge a Pounds 5 per month subscription fee for it from the outset and move, at a later stage, to pay-as-you-view for top matches. After yesterday's hearing Mr Parry said he was relieved by the outcome.
    11. After 13 years in office, ministers seem to have forgotten how to fight hard elections. Mr Major's campaign stumbled at the outset.
    12. From the outset, the tobacco industry has been uncertain as to what strategy to follow.
    13. He said there was some discussion of taxes at Tuesday's meeting, but that he made his position clear from the outset that he opposed any form of tax increase.
    14. North West was one rose well to close 2 1/2 higher at 307 1/2 p, having been cut to 300p at the outset.
    15. Tarmac moved forward 10 to 69p, Bryant 8 to 74p and George Wimpey 6 to 80p. The high street banks led the market charge at the outset of trading but closed well below the day's best levels.
    16. There was a small amount of buying interest at the outset of trading on the first day of a new quarter and a new trading account, analysts said.
    17. He joked at the outset that he "stepped on my own story" on Friday when he acknowledged to reporters that his race against Bush appears lost.
    18. Such was the variety and strength of the work that the practice was resumed at the outset of the second.
    19. At the outset I would like to make quite clear how limited that submission is.
    20. At the outset of the 1988 presidential race, Robertson was a wild card.
    21. At the outset, Reagan made an appeal for eliminating agricultural subsidies _ the hottest economic issue here _ and will return to the topic before Tuesday's adjournment.
    22. "You know, Mark Twain once said that a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes," Dukakis told the rally at the outset of a full day of campaigning in California.
    23. "It is now abundantly clear that many documents that should have been classified from the outset were not classified in any way, at certain agencies such as the National Security Council and Department of State," he wrote.
    24. Sophisticated arguments can be made that the Civil War was really over commercial rivalries or that President Abraham Lincoln himself focused at the outset on secession, not slavery.
    25. "But after a few months of casting _ I like to see everyone I can _ I thought it would be more effective to go with someone who was not obviously sensual from the outset," he said.
    26. But his conversation is relaxed, his manner unthreatened, his smile as dangerously charming as ever. It comes into play right at the outset, as he starts the interview by attacking his critics.
    27. Sources at the agency and the company both said Columbia Gas may yet be able to justify a sizable pass-through by showing that many of the renegotiated contracts had been proper, albeit expensive, from the outset.
    28. At the very outset of the whole affair, before we were drowned in leaks about all sorts of people with odd names doing strange things in far-off places, some attention was indeed paid to this question.
    29. The former socialist foreign minister, Roland Dumas, described Sunday's settlement as a victory for les anglo-saxons who had opposed European integration from the outset.
    30. The weakness was evident at the outset.
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