"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"
"The DMZ begins right over the hill"
"The second movement begins after the Allegro"
"Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
"The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"
"The Iraqis began hostilities"
"begin a new chapter in your life"
"Now listen, friends,"
"The number `one' begins the sequence"
"A terrible murder begins the novel"
"The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
"WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"
"The company's Asia tour begins next month"
"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"
"begin a cigar"
"She started the soup while it was still hot"
"We started physics in 10th grade"
"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"
"She began Russian at an early age"
"We started French in fourth grade"
He will soon begin to write a novel.
写小说是有意志的。
She began to like novels at twenty.
爱好小说本身是没意志的。若该动词是属于被动语态的,也多用不定式,不怎么用动名词。
I shall begin this book today.
我今天将开始看这本书。
I shall begin with this book today.
我今天将先看这本书,有后看别的书的意思。
The journey begins from Shanghai.
句中的from最好换成其他介词如at。
The journey begins from Shanghai to Beijing.
这句是完全错误的。
The book began to be read (by him) last Sunday.
The book was begun (by him) to be read last Sunday.
这句话虽语法上无误,却不符习惯,因实际上begin to ...的结构是不能作被动语态的。
It began to rain at three o'clock.
雨是在三点的时候开始下的。
I felt I did not begin to understand him.
我觉得自己一点也不了解他。
Your suggestion does not begin to meet the difficulty.
你的建议一点解决不了这个困难。
Nothing has begun to interest her so much as folk music.
没有什么东西曾经像民间音乐一样引起她的兴趣。
I began/started teaching when I was 24.
我24岁时,开始教书。
We will begin the meeting with a message from the President.
It's starting to rain.
The show begins next week.
表演下周开始。
Many important businessmen began as factory workers.
许多显赫的企业家都是从工厂的工人做起的。
She began as an actress.
她以当演员开始她的职业生涯。
These clubs began as coffeehouses in the seventeenth century.
这些夜总会在17世纪时原来是咖啡馆。
begin sth as sb/sthShe began her career as a sports reporter.
她以当体育记者开始她的职业生涯。
He began life as a newspaper reporter at the age of twenty-two.
他22岁就开始当新闻记者。
We began this club as a way of raising money.
我们办这个俱乐部把它作为集资的一种途径。
In learning any language, to start with the classics is to begin at the wrong end.
无论学习哪种语言,从古典作品学起的方法是不对头的。
They begin at the beginning.
他们从头开始。
Today we begin at page 30, line 12.
今天我们从第30页第12行开始。
They went to school for nine years, beginning at the age of seven.
从7岁开始他们上了9年学。
School begins at 8 o'clock.
学校8点开始上课。
The meeting will begin at seven o'clock.
会议将于7点钟开始。
The discussion began at three o'clock and ended at five.
讨论从3点钟开始,一直到5点。
The night shift begins at five o'clock.
夜班从5点钟开始。
The match will begin at nine o'clock.
比赛将在9点开始。
The bidding began at $1000.
喊价开始为1000美元。
At an auction sale, the price of a beautiful vase began at fifty pounds, and reached eight hundred.
在一次拍卖中,一只漂亮的花瓶起价是50英镑,后来达到800英镑。
begin sth at sthHe began Latin at the age of ten.
他10岁开始学拉丁语。
I begin my study at seven.
我7点开始学习。
Father begins work at 8 every morning.
父亲每天早晨8点开始工作。
We'll begin the lecture at eight o'clock.
我们8点钟开始讲课。
We shall begin the meeting at five.
我们将在5点钟开始开会。
They begin breakfast at seven.
他们7点钟开早饭。
I must begin by telling you about the factory itself.
我先给你们谈谈工厂本身。
An experienced public speaker usually begins by arousing the audience's curiosity.
经验丰富的演讲者大都在一开场就极力唤起听众的好奇心。
He began by pouring ridicule on the Whig leader.
他先狠狠地讽刺了辉格党的领导人。
They began by building blocks of flats for workers.
他们先给工人盖一片片的住宅。
We began by making the simplist kind of weight measures.
我们开始时只做最简单的计量工具。
The students usually begin by learning the progressive form and doing numerous drills on it.
学生总是一开始学习现在进行时,然后做大量关于进行时态的练习。
He began by telling a tale of country life.
他首先讲了一个乡村生活的童话。
Father began by scolding me, saying that I was a bad boy.
父亲开始训斥我说我是个坏孩子。
He began by saying that he would not speak very long.
他先说他的讲话不长,尔后开始。
begin sth by v-ingThe professor began his lecture by telling a joke.
教授在讲课前先讲一个笑话。
The comedian began the show by telling a joke.
那位喜剧演员讲了一个笑话表演就开始了。
He's a very busy lawyer and has already begun on another case.
他是一位很忙的律师,现已着手处理另一个案子。
He began on a technical innovation two years ago but has made no progress so far.
两年前他着手进行一项技术革新,但迄今尚无任何进展。
He has begun on a new book.
他已开始读一本新书。
Has he begun on another bottle?
他已开始喝另一瓶酒了吗?
He began on another new task last week.
他上周又着手一项新任务。
The vacation begins on July 1st.7
月1日开始放假。
The new term begins on Monday.
新学期从星期一开始。
The conference will begin on Monday and end on Friday.
会议星期一开始,星期五结束。
The measure will be applied gradually beginning on October 1.
这项措施将于11月1日起逐步实行。
In 1958 work began upon the second phase of the project.1958
年第二期工程开始施工。
Tom and his drinking companions began upon their third bottle in an hour.
一小时后,汤姆和他的酒友就开始喝第三瓶了。
The children began upon the chocolate biscuits.
孩子们开始吃巧克力饼干。
We will now hear the students read their poems, beginning with Tom.
现在我们来听听学生们诵读他们的诗作,从汤姆开始吧。
We need the figures for the twelve months, beginning with February.
我们需要从二月份以来的十二个月的数据。
You should begin with this book.
你该先读这本书。
The word begins with a vowel.
这个词开头是元音。
The Bible begins with the Genesis .《
圣经》开篇是《创世记》。
The first word of a sentence should begin with a capital letter.
句子第一个词的第一个字母要大写。
He began with entreaties and ended with a threat.
他先是恳求,最后是威胁。
Let us begin with this song.
咱们先唱这首歌。
Let's begin with a story.
让我们先讲个故事。
Let's begin with the first paragraph.
咱们从第一段开始吧。
You may begin with English 900 .
你可以先从《英语900句》学起。
We began with the third chapter.
我们是从第三章开始的。
He advised me to begin with something easy.
他劝我先从容易的开始做起。
Which shall I begin with?
我从哪一个开始?
This book begins with a tale of country life.
这本书以一个农村生活的故事开始。
The concert began with the national anthem.
音乐会以奏国歌开始。
My way is to begin with the beginning.
我的办法是从头开始。
Knowledge begins with practice.
认识从实践开始。
The ocean began with little drops of water.
大洋是点滴的水聚成的。
Education, in the largest sense, begins with a man's birth, and does not end until he dies.
从最广泛的意义上说,教育从人一出生就开始,直到死才结束。
begin sth with sthIt is very worrying to begin the day with bad news.
这一天一开始就有坏消息,令人担忧。
The teacher began his class with a question.
老师开始上课时先提了个问题。