from the beginning from the outset Right from the start ab initio
I saw through your little ruse from the start.
从一开始我就看穿了你的小计谋。
—— 柯林斯例句I don´t think we should have been there in the first place.
我认为我们从一开始就不该在那儿。
—— 柯林斯例句The debate seems, in retrospect, to have been fixed from the beginning.
回想起来,这场辩论好像从一开始就被人操纵了。
—— 柯林斯例句The talks had been hard going at the start.
会谈从一开始就举步维艰。
—— 柯林斯例句You knew about me from the first, didn´t you?
从一开始你就知道我,对吧?
—— 柯林斯例句