ab initio

短语

从头开始 [法] 自始; 从头开始; 从开始起

发音

US /ˌæb ɪˈnɪʃ.i.oʊ/
US /ˌæb əˈnɪt.i.oʊ/
US /ˌɑb əˈnɪt.i.oʊ/

别名

ab init

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force.

    法律

    As the Act was passed without the required quorum, the constitutional court struck down the Act and declared it to be void ab initio

  2. 2.

    Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions.

    […] this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.

  3. 3.

    Taken with no prior qualifications.

词汇关系

副词

同义词 1

initially

词源

From Latin ab (“from”) + initiō, ablative singular of initium (“beginning”).

来源：wiktionary