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I have two questions from the unit D05 of my textbook.
The first one is from the sentence here:
"It was a little slow to start with but the special effects, especially the computer graphics, were fantastic!"
In this sentence, why is the word "with" put after the word "start"? Can't I omit it from this sentence?
The second question is from the sentence below:
"They're really overpaid and out of touch!"
I just understand the meaning of "out of touch". Would you explain if possible using example sentence, please?
Thank you in advance for your help. ^^
The first one is from the sentence here:
"It was a little slow to start with but the special effects, especially the computer graphics, were fantastic!"
In this sentence, why is the word "with" put after the word "start"? Can't I omit it from this sentence?
The second question is from the sentence below:
"They're really overpaid and out of touch!"
I just understand the meaning of "out of touch". Would you explain if possible using example sentence, please?
Thank you in advance for your help. ^^
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In this sentence, why is the word "with" put after the word "start"?
You need it.
"My car was slow to start this morning due to the cold weather"
= "the start was delayed"
"to start with" can also mean をはじめとして but in this case it describes the state at the beginning of something.
"The runners' pace was slow to start with, but picked up around the half-way mark."
"I found kanji very hard to start with, but after reading XYZ, it became a lot easier."
I think that this use of "with" probably comes from the older English word "withal", which has a sense of "despite" or "nevertheless":
"Being slow to start, withal, the merriment was soon in full flow"
This is very different from the other use of "to start with":
"He had a cup of coffee to start with, then went on to eat a full three-course meal"
(there is no sense of "despite" or "nevertheless" between the two parts of the sentence)
I just understand the meaning of "out of touch".
"Since leaving Japan, I've been really out of touch with the fashion trends there"
Compare with "in touch", which is the same as "in contact with", so it's like 連絡、交際
"Out of touch" is when you're not "in touch", but it's not used for everyday contact, but for contact with something abstract or general.
"Politicians today are completely out of touch with what the ordinary working person needs/wants/has to go through to make ends meet"
"Politicians today are completely out of touch with the common man"
Thank you very much for the explanations! ^^
The expressions "start with" and "out of touch" seemed very hard to understand, but I think I become getting to understand them. ^^;
I just don't understand the meaning of "out of touch".
Thank you very much for the correction! ^^