艾伦秀第278期:完成了比赛

1、start out

起初是

Daly was a fast-talking Irish-American who had started out as a salesman.

达利是个花言巧语的爱尔兰裔美国人，最初是干推销员的。

What started out as fun quickly became hard work.

起初好玩的事很快就变成了艰苦的工作。

从…开始;从…着手

We started out by looking at ways in which big projects such as railways could be financed by the private sector.

我们先研究了让私营企业投资铁路等大型项目的方式。

The child'll start out by making relatively few distinctions in the language.

孩子开始时不太能辨别语言中的差别。

2、performance

表演；演出

Inside the theatre, they were giving a performance of Bizet's Carmen.

在剧院里，他们正在演出比才的作品《卡门》。

her performance as the betrayed Medea.

她所演绎的遭人背叛的美狄亚

表现；业绩；性能；运行情况

That study looked at the performance of 18 surgeons.

那项研究调查了18名外科医生的工作表现。

The poor performance has been blamed on the recession and cheaper sports car imports.

业绩不佳的原因被归咎于经济衰退和低价跑车的进口。

执行；履行；做

He devoted in excess of seventy hours a week to the performance of his duties.

为了完成任务，他每周工作70多个小时。

The people believe that the performance of this ritual is the will of the Great Spirit.

该部族的人认为举行这种仪式是大神的意志。