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 begin [bɪ'gɪn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 开始

vi. 开始

[计] 开始


  1. When did you begin learning English?
    你何时开始学习英语的?
  2. The new fare will be 1, beginning (from) next month.
    从下月起, 新车费为1英镑.
  3. I have to begin with an apology.
    我得首先表示歉意.


begin
began, beginning, begun
[ noun ]
  1. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

  2. <noun.person>
[ verb ]
  1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

  2. <verb.change> commence get get down set about set out start start out
    We began working at dawn
    Who will start?
    Get working as soon as the sun rises!
    The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
    He began early in the day
    Let's get down to work now
  3. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

  4. <verb.stative>
    start
    The DMZ begins right over the hill
    The second movement begins after the Allegro
    Prices for these homes start at $250,000
  5. set in motion, cause to start

  6. <verb.change>
    commence lead off start
    The U.S. started a war in the Middle East
    The Iraqis began hostilities
    begin a new chapter in your life
  7. begin to speak or say

  8. <verb.communication>
    Now listen, friends,
  9. be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series

  10. <verb.stative>
    The number `one' begins the sequence
    A terrible murder begins the novel
    The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester
  11. have a beginning, of a temporal event

  12. <verb.stative>
    WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland
    The company's Asia tour begins next month
  13. have a beginning characterized in some specified way

  14. <verb.stative>
    start
    The novel begins with a murder
    My property begins with the three maple trees
    Her day begins with a workout
    The semester begins with a convocation ceremony
  15. begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object

  16. <verb.social>
    start
    begin a cigar
    She started the soup while it was still hot
    We started physics in 10th grade
  17. achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative

  18. <verb.social>
    This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation
    You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war
  19. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

  20. <verb.communication>
    She began Russian at an early age
    We started French in fourth grade


Begin \Be*gin"\, v. t.
1. To enter on; to commence.

Ye nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song. --Pope.

2. To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a
beginning of.

The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures,
which leads us to the knowledge of God. --Locke.

Syn: To commence; originate; set about; start.


Begin \Be*gin"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Began}, {Begun}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Beginning}.] [AS. beginnan (akin to OS. biginnan, D.
& G. beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna,
Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. [root]31. See
{Gin} to begin.]
1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to
take rise; to commence.

Vast chain of being! which from God began. --Pope.

2. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to
enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or
state of being, or course of action; to take the first
step; to start. ``Tears began to flow.'' --Dryden.

When I begin, I will also make an end. --1 Sam. iii.
12.


Begin \Be*gin"\, n.
Beginning. [Poetic & Obs.] --Spenser.

  1. The expense and logistics of distributing the water - bottled water must be purchased - has prompted the military to begin using water taken from oasis wells and processed from the sea.
  2. The company also said it would begin listing nutritional values on its packages.
  3. Authorities said they will begin excavating a site Monday in search of evidence in the shooting deaths of four members of a family and the disappearance of a relative eight months ago.
  4. Enforcement was scheduled to begin Monday night, even though Mayor Marion Barry Jr. and Corporation Counsel Fred Cooke acknowledged that the plan might violate constitutional guarantees of freedom of assembly and privacy rights.
  5. The government recently announced that the two-airline agreement will end and deregulation will begin in 1990.
  6. When the stores get the planning diagrams, merchandise schedules and props from corporate headquarters, they make adjustments for their individuals stores and begin the physical transition about two months before Thanksgiving.
  7. Temperatures remained in the 40s in the park Monday, keeping humidity levels at up to 50 percent, but the weather was expected to begin clearing Tuesday and temperatures were to reach 70 degrees by Wednesday, drying the area once again.
  8. On Monday, prison officials will begin to house up to 90 inmates in dormitories that have been housing 50 inmates, Coughlin said.
  9. Four days hence, on Monday, the regular winter conference of OPEC opens and all 13 members will begin the effort to take official action on the problem of runaway production.
  10. West Point-Pepperell said it plans to begin a tender offer for all of Stevens stock at $62.50 a share in cash, but would increase its offer to $64 a share if Stevens recommends the offer.
  11. Kasparov said Moscow either was unwilling or unable to solve ethnic disputes involving Azerbaijan and Armenia, and he called for individuals to begin direct negotiations between the republics.
  12. A 60-day comment period will begin Dec. 22 to give the public time to offer opinions on the agreement.
  13. The interest will grow to 10% over the next three years, while Bell Atlantic and Ameritech will reduce their combined stake to 49.9% through a series of stock offerings that could begin as early as next year.
  14. Once the gene has been identified, researchers can begin figuring out its function and then start searching for possible therapy.
  15. A Continental spokesman says the airline planned to open the terminal in phases, so passengers could begin using it sooner.
  16. Mid-America plans to begin developing a cooling system next year in downtown Cleveland.
  17. Permit me to discuss with you for a moment just what's at stake in this whole matter of the defense bill, and in doing so, it's important to begin with some historical background.
  18. So far, all but a handful of UAW local leaders have refused to ask their members to take vacations en masse during a scheduled two-week shutdown to begin July 20.
  19. Meetings begin Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand, with a three-day Pacific rim ministerial summit of ASEAN, the Association of Asian Nations.
  20. All the Atrium's retailers were scheduled to open by February and Karp said he expected to begin turning a profit shortly thereafter.
  21. That way, the children might be given hearing aids before they begin having troubles learning speech and language.
  22. "It's something that is going to be in Armenian memories forever," Odette Hambarsoomian, 28, said of the quake while waiting for Mass to begin at St. Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.
  23. The series, starring Blair Brown, was canceled last year by NBC, but picked up by the cable channel for 13 new episodes that began airing in April. The 26 newest episodes will begin appearing in early 1990.
  24. The world railway speed record is 319 mph, set by France's TGV last May. The new Shinkansen train will begin Tokyo-Osaka passenger service next year, traveling as fast as 167 mph and cutting 20 minutes off the current 2 1/2-hour trip.
  25. A script for "Scarlett" should be ready by early next year, and Mr. Halmi hopes to begin filming in June.
  26. Talks between the government and the unions on 1989 salaries are to begin soon.
  27. Van Leuven said later that referred to a long-range plan for improving the plant, and that a phased restart of plutonium operations could begin before that plan is ready.
  28. American Stores said it would begin a tender offer "promptly."
  29. Separately, the company said that it will begin shipping two new products next month, and that it has obtained a commitment from Midlantic National Bank for a $1 million line of credit to be used for working-capital purposes.
  30. "In nursing, you begin to repeat yourself, and I wanted to grow," she says.
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