還在最底層時就進來
把樓層換成時間:最底下那一層,等於一件事剛起步、上面什麼都還沒蓋的階段。
noun · B2
If you get in on the ground floor, you join a plan, a business, or an activity right at the start, before it has grown, so you are part of whatever it turns into.
一開始就加入
Picture a building as a pile of floors. One of them sits on the earth, and that is the one you walk into from the street: no to climb, nothing under you but the ground. Everything else in the building is built on top of it. English keeps the same picture when it talks about time, not space. To be in on the ground floor is to be there while the thing is still only one floor high, before anything has been built above it.
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還在最底層時就進來
把樓層換成時間:最底下那一層,等於一件事剛起步、上面什麼都還沒蓋的階段。
noun · B2
If you get in on the ground floor, you join a plan, a business, or an activity right at the start, before it has grown, so you are part of whatever it turns into.
一開始就加入
noun · A2
The floor of a building that is level with the ground outside, so you walk in from the street without going up or down any stairs.
一樓(地面那一層)