你也许需要和你的老板聊聊，但是有时你可以先开个头然后再汇报给你的上司。

You might need to talk to your boss, but sometimes you can just start doing something and inform the higher-ups later.

youdao

毫无头绪，或者说，无从下手，你如何在这种情形下开个头，我们不只是不知道细节如何？

We don't really have a clue yet, or not much of a clue, as to how you could even so much as begin to — it's not that merely that we don't have the details worked out.

youdao

在网上写作时，你只要先写出几千字，给你的作品开个头，让读者看到你写的是什么。

With online writing, you only need a few thousand characters to start off your book and to show your readers what you're writing.

youdao

We don't really have a clue yet, or not much of a clue, as to how you could even so much as begin to-- it's not that merely that we don't have the details worked out.

毫无头绪,或者说,无从下手,你如何在这种情形下开个头,我们不只是不知道细节如何

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