喜樂美語
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    rB2

    /ɪˈnɪʃəli/

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

    起初；一開始

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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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…更多收起可以想成 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。

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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/

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    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.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。