starting from scratch

基本解釋

If you are starting from scratch you are always failing until you succeed.
如果你從零開始，那么你總是失敗的，除非你獲得成功。
In dealing with this situation, we do not have the luxury of starting from scratch.
在處理這類情況時，我們沒有可以從頭開始的有利條件。
When something goes wrong, it's regarded as a mystery that might only be solved by starting from scratch.
如果某件事出錯了，就會把它當(dāng)成一個謎，可能只有通過從零開始才能解決它。

In dealing with this situation, we don't have the luxury of starting from scratch.
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白手起家
The large change of competing environment and mode lessens the chance of starting from scratch, at the beginning of planning economy transforming period, those entrepreneurs who have finished their primitive accumulation depending on individual courage and braveness, finding that they are incapable of governing commercial opportunities by their experience before.
競爭環(huán)境和方式的巨大變化，使白手起家的機會越來越少，在計劃經(jīng)濟轉(zhuǎn)型初期憑個人勇氣和膽識完成原始資本積累的企業(yè)家們發(fā)現(xiàn)，用以前成功的經(jīng)驗去把握這些商機顯得越來越力不從心了。