starting-point

基本解释

But given Indonesia’s starting-point a decade ago, that is still impressive.
但考虑到印尼十年前的经济起点，这种增长仍令人印象深刻。
Hence I can choose as illustration a work comprising everything that denotes awareness of the absurd, having a clear starting-point and a lucid climate.
因此，我可以选择一部囊括一切指向荒谬意识、具有明晰起点和氛围的著作加以说明。
A better starting-point would be to require dark pools to publish their operating procedures and membership criteria, so that investors can make a better informed choice of where to trade.
而较好的起点应该是需要资金暗池公布他们的操作过程和公共债务，这样投资者们可以对在在消息更为灵通的情况下选择在哪里交易。

we reached a station fifty-eight miles from our starting point in the morning ..."
In binary search-- ah, there's that wonderful phrase, this is called a version of binary search just like you saw bin-- or bi-section methods, - when we were doing numerical things- in binary search, I need to keep track of the starting point and the ending point of the list I'm looking at.
就是当我们处理数字的时候，所称的二分检索，在二分法搜索中,我需要记录区间的开始点和尾点，初始化的时候就是-,问题输入的开始点和尾点，当我开始做测试的时候,我想要做的就是去取中值点。
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So the flaw in the argument that Chris and Ryan had -- it isn't a bad argument, it's a good starting point but the flaw in the argument, the mistake in the argument was the first sentence in the argument.
所以克里斯和瑞恩的说法的漏洞在于,这并不是一个错误的说法,这是一个很好的出发点,但其中存在漏洞,其中的漏洞在于第一句话
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The starting-point should be that rising food prices bear more heavily on some places than others.
ECONOMIST: Food

Something that is a starting point for a discussion or process can be used to begin it or act as a basis for it.
When you make a journey, your starting point is the place from which you start.