最初
zuì chū
Pinyin

Definition

最初
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zuì chū
  1. first
  2. primary
  3. initial
  4. original
  5. at first
  6. initially
  7. originally

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

zuì
  1. 1 variant of 最[zuì]
zuì hòu
  1. 1 final
  2. 2 last
  3. 3 finally
  4. 4 ultimate
zuì jìn
  1. 1 recently
  2. 2 soon
  3. 3 nearest
chū
  1. 1 at first
  2. 2 (at the) beginning
  3. 3 first
  4. 4 junior
  5. 5 basic
chū yī
  1. 1 first day of lunar month
  2. 2 New Year's Day
  3. 3 first year in junior middle school
chū sān
  1. 1 third year in junior middle school
chū zhōng
  1. 1 junior high school
  2. 2 abbr. for 初級中學|初级中学[chū jí zhōng xué]
chū èr
  1. 1 2nd year in junior middle school
  2. 2 2nd day of a lunar month
  3. 3 2nd day of lunar New Year
chū liàn
  1. 1 first love
chū jí
  1. 1 junior
  2. 2 primary
zuì chū
  1. 1 first
  2. 2 primary
  3. 3 initial
  4. 4 original
  5. 5 at first
  6. 6 initially
  7. 7 originally
zuì hǎo
  1. 1 best
  2. 2 (you) had better (do what we suggest)
zuì xīn
  1. 1 latest
  2. 2 newest
zuì zhōng
  1. 1 final
  2. 2 ultimate
zuì gāo
  1. 1 tallest
  2. 2 highest
  3. 3 supreme (court etc)
dāng chū
  1. 1 at that time
  2. 2 originally
chū zhōng shēng
  1. 1 junior high student
chū dōng
  1. 1 early winter
chū chū máo lú
  1. 1 venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom)
  2. 2 young and inexperienced
  3. 3 novice
  4. 4 greenhorn
chū chuàng
  1. 1 startup (company, phase etc)
  2. 2 newly established
  3. 3 in the early stages

Idioms (10)

初出茅庐
chū chū máo lú
  1. 1 venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom)
  2. 2 young and inexperienced
  3. 3 novice
  4. 4 greenhorn
初生之犊不畏虎
chū shēng zhī dú bù wèi hǔ
  1. 1 lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the fearlessness of youth
初生牛犊不怕虎
chū shēng niú dú bù pà hǔ
  1. 1 lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the young are fearless
初露头角
chū lù tóu jiǎo
  1. 1 lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent
  2. 2 first sign of emerging talent
  3. 3 budding genius
悔不当初
huǐ bù dāng chū
  1. 1 to regret one's past deeds (idiom)
情窦初开
qíng dòu chū kāi
  1. 1 first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
早知今日何必当初
zǎo zhī jīn rì hé bì dāng chū
  1. 1 if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom)
  2. 2 to regret vainly one's past behavior
为善最乐
wéi shàn zuì lè
  1. 1 doing good deeds brings the greatest joy (idiom)
躲得过初一,躲不过十五
duǒ de guò chū yī , duǒ bù guò shí wǔ
  1. 1 lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you can't put it off forever
  3. 3 sooner or later you'll have to deal with it
靡不有初,鲜克有终
mǐ bù yǒu chū , xiǎn kè yǒu zhōng
  1. 1 almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle

Sample Sentences

我完全懂,我最初也想挑战手排,但实在太难,我后来干脆放弃。
wǒ wánquán dǒng ,wǒ zuìchū yě xiǎng tiǎozhàn shǒupái ,dàn really tài nán ,wǒ hòulái gāncuì fàngqì 。
I completely understand, I originally tried to learn manual when I first learned, but it really was too difficult, so I just gave up on it.
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你想想啊,首先,煤电厂排放的不只是二氧化碳,还有其它有害气体,比如氧化氮和二氧化硫,这些有害气体的排放量比汽油汽车高很多。其次,在制造电动汽车时,它对环境的破坏更大。先要生产锂电池吧,这些锂电池体积很大,制造费用昂贵,尤其是特斯拉的电池更贵,它比对手的电池要更大更强大。许多电动汽车的电池要用到稀土,它本来就稀缺,而且提炼也耗钱。特斯拉的AC感应电动机没有使用稀土材料,但是公司的工程师也承认,S型汽车生产时消耗的能源比凯美瑞多。因此,在最初上路之前,S型汽车就已经远比其它汽车污染重了。你开得越久,它才越绿色。
nǐ xiǎngxiang ā ,shǒuxiān ,méidiànchǎng páifàng de bù zhǐshì èryǎnghuàtàn ,háiyǒu qítā yǒuhài qìtǐ ,bǐrú yǎnghuàdàn hé èryǎnghuàliú ,zhèxiē yǒuhài qìtǐ de páifàngliàng bǐ qìyóu qìchē gāo hěn duō 。qícì ,zài zhìzào diàndòng qìchē shí ,tā duì huánjìng de pòhuài gèngdà 。xiān yào shēngchǎn lǐdiànchí ba ,zhèxiē lǐdiànchí tǐjī hěndà ,zhìzào fèiyòng ángguì ,yóuqí shì tèsīlā de diànchí gèng guì ,tā bǐ duìshǒu de diànchí yào gèngdà gèng qiángdà 。xǔduō diàndòng qìchē de diànchí yào yòng dào xītǔ ,tā běnlái jiù xīquē ,érqiě tíliàn yě hào qián 。tèsīlā de AC gǎnyìng diàndòngjī méiyǒu shǐyòng xītǔ cáiliào ,dànshì gōngsī de gōngchéngshī yě chéngrèn ,S xíng qìchē shēngchǎn shí xiāohào de néngyuán bǐ kǎiměiruì duō 。yīncǐ ,zài zuìchū shànglù zhīqián ,S xíng qìchē jiù yǐjīng yuǎn bǐ qítā qìchē wūrǎn zhòng le 。nǐ kāide yuè jiǔ ,tā cái yuè lǜsè 。
Think about it. First, coal-fired power plants do not only emit carbon dioxide, but also other harmful gases; for example, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide. The amount of emissions from these harmful gases is much higher than what comes from gasoline cars. Secondly, the damage to the environment is greater when manufacturing electric cars. First you need to produce a lithium battery. The volume of these lithium batteries is huge, so it is costly to manufacture them. Tesla's batteries are even more expensive as they are bigger and stronger than the competitor's. Many electric car batteries use rare earth elements, that are scarce, and which are costly to extract. Tesla's AC induction motor doesn't use rare earth materials, but the company's engineer also admits that when producing Model S cars, the consumption of energy is more than for a Camry. Therefore, in the beginning, before you get on the road, Model S cars have already caused much more severe pollution that other cars. The longer you drive it, the greener it will then become.
社会本来就应该遵从“道”,保持最初的样子。当大家都知道“美”是怎么回事的时候,“丑”的概念也产生了,当大家都知道“善”是怎么回事的时候,“不善”的概念也产生了。所以我说过“有无相生”,“有”和“无”是互相比较而产生的。同样,难和易,长和短,高和低,前和后也都如此啊!
shèhuì běnlái jiù yīnggāi zūncóng “dào ”,bǎochí zuìchū de yàngzi 。dāng dàjiā dōu zhīdào “měi ”shì zěnme huí shì de shíhou ,“chǒu ”de gàiniàn yě chǎnshēng le ,dāng dàjiā dōu zhīdào “shàn ”shì zěnme huí shì de shíhou ,“bùshàn ”de gàiniàn yě chǎnshēng le 。suǒyǐ wǒ shuō guo “yǒuwúxiāngshēng ”,“yǒu ”hé “wú ”shì hùxiāng bǐjiào ér chǎnshēng de 。tóngyàng ,nán hé yì ,cháng hé duǎn ,gāo hé dī ,qián hé hòu yě dōu rúcǐ a !
Ideally, society should respect the "Dao" and preserve it in its earliest form. However, when people realized what "beauty" was, the idea of "ugliness" was born; when everyone learned what "good" was, "bad" was born. Therefore, when I've said "existence and nonexistence depend on one another," it means "to have" and "to lack" were born together and are compared with one another. Difficult and easy, long and short, high and low, before and after are all this way as well!
《 易经》最初有八卦,这个“卦”的意思就是挂起来的“挂”,也就是说你应该把它挂起来,然后经常看,就能参透其中的道理。这个和占卜是不一样的。你知道的占卜算命等说法,其实是后人将《易经》理论延伸后的产物。
Yìjīng 》zuìchū yǒu bāguà ,zhè ge “guà ”de yìsi jiùshì guà qǐlái de “guà ”,yějiùshìshuō nǐ yīnggāi bǎ tā guà qǐlái ,ránhòu jīngcháng kàn ,jiù néng cāntòu qízhōng de dàolǐ 。zhè ge hé zhānbǔ shì bù yīyàng de 。nǐ zhīdào de zhānbǔ suànmìng děng shuōfǎ ,qíshí shì hòurén jiāng Yìjīng 》lǐlùn yánshēn hòu de chǎnwù 。
Initially, the I Ching had the 8 trigrams. The meaning of this 'trigram' comes from the word, 'gua', or to hang up; meaning that you should first hang it up, examine it often, and then you will be able to fully understand the rationality within it. This is different than the practice of divination. The practice of divination and fortune telling that you know, are actually the products of later generations expanding on the theories of the I Ching.
但是,从最初出发的将近二十万人,到最后胜利会师的几万人,长征的损失可不小啊!
dànshì ,cóng zuìchū chūfā de jiāngjìn èrshí wàn rén ,dào zuìhòu shènglì huìshī de jǐ wàn rén ,chángzhēng de sǔnshī kě bù xiǎo a !
But from almost 200,000 people who set out at the beginning, to a few thousand victorious people left at the end-- the losses during the Long March were really serious!