喜樂美語
  1. 1rB2/ɪˈnɪʃəli/起初；一開始

    正式at the beginning, before something different happened or was true later.

    at the beginning在一開始，before something different happened or was true later在後來發生或成立不同的事情之前。

    示範例句 · Example

    Initially, the new software seemed too complicated, but the team learned it quickly.

    逐字起初，這套新軟體似乎太複雜了，但團隊很快就學會了。

    「initially」是「一開始的時候」，可以想成是 at first 的正式版——中文都可以翻成「起初、一開始」，差別在語氣：at first 比較口語，initially 更常出現在書面報告、新聞或正式說明裡。可以想成 initially 就像事情的『起點』，它和 initial（一開始的）、initiate（開始做）同一個字根，都帶著『從頭』的畫面。用 initially 開頭的句子，後面幾乎都會用 but 或 however 帶出後來不一樣的情況。

    常見搭配

    • initially thought

      一開始以為

      what someone believed at the beginning

      I initially thought the movie would be boring, but I loved it.

    • initially seemed

      一開始看起來

      how something appeared at the beginning

      The puzzle initially seemed impossible to solve.

    • initially opposed

      一開始反對

      to be against something at the beginning

      Many parents initially opposed the new school schedule.

    • initially reported

      一開始報導的

      what was first said or written about something

      The damage was worse than initially reported.

    • initially developed for

      最初是為了...而開發

      made for one purpose at the beginning

      The app was initially developed for teachers, but now students use it too.

    意思相近

    at firstoriginallyat the outsetto begin with

core核心畫面

You can picture initially as pointing back to how things stood at the very start, with the speaker already knowing that they did not stay that way. Saying it is a small promise that a change is coming in the next breath — the first plan, the first reaction, before something turned it around.

可以想成 initially 是回頭指著「一開始的情況」，而且說話的人心裡已經知道後來變了。講出這個字，等於先預告下一句會有轉折——最初的打算、最初的反應，然後某件事把它改掉了。

同家族的字

意思相近

at firstoriginallyat the outsetto begin with

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

initiallyadv/ɪˈnɪʃəli/

  • 1

    At the beginning.

    • Initially, I found city life incredibly difficult, but now I'm used to it.
    • In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

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