1.[i][t]开始；启动to start doing sth; to do the first part of sth
Shall I begin?我可以开始了吗？
Let's begin at page 9.咱们从第 9 页开始。
She began by thanking us all for coming.她首先对我们大家的到来表示感谢。
We began work on the project in May.我们于五月份启动这个项目。
I began(= started reading) this novel last month and I still haven't finished it.我上月就开始读这本小说，到现在还没读完。
He always begins his lessons with a warm-up exercise.他讲课前总是先让学生做预备练习题。
He began his political career as a student(= when he was a student) .他从当学生时起就开始了他的政治生涯。
I began to feel dizzy.我开始感到头晕目眩。
At last the guests began to arrive.客人们终于陆续到达了。
She began to cry.她哭了起来。
It was beginning to snow.开始下雪了。
I was beginning to think you'd never come.我都开始以为你不会来了。
Everyone began talking at once.大家立刻开始谈了起来。
When will you begin recruiting?你们何时开始招募人员？
2.[i]起始；开始存在（或进行）to start to happen or exist, especially from a particular time
When does the concert begin?音乐会什么时间开始？
Work on the new bridge is due to begin in September.新桥定于九月份动工。
The evening began well.晚会开始得很顺利。
3.[i]~ as sth起初是；本来是to be sth first, before becoming sth else
He began as an actor, before starting to direct films.他先是当演员，后来开始执导影片。
What began as a minor scuffle turned into a full-scale riot.最初的小冲突演变成了大规模的暴乱。
4.[i]（从…）开始；（以…）为起点to have sth as the first part or the point where sth starts
Where does Europe end and Asia begin?欧洲和亚洲的交界处在哪里？
Use ‘an’ before words beginning with a vowel.在以元音开始的词之前使用 an。
‘I'm thinking of a country in Asia.’ ‘What does it begin with(= what is the first letter) ?’“我想的是一个亚洲国家。”“它的首字母是什么？”
Each chapter begins with a quotation.每一章的开头都有一条引语。
The path begins at Livingston village.这条小路始于利文斯顿村。
5.[t]+ speech开始讲话to start speaking
‘Ladies and gentlemen,’ he began, ‘welcome to the Town Hall.’他开始讲话：“女士们、先生们，欢迎光临市政厅。”
6.[i][t]创始；创办to start or make sth start for the first time
The school began in 1920, with only ten pupils.这所学校创建于 1920 年，当时只有十名学生。
He began a new magazine on post-war architecture.他创办了一份专论战后建筑的新杂志。
7.[t]not ~ to do sth不想；绝不能to make no attempt to do sth or have no chance of doing sth
I can't begin to thank you enough.我说不尽对你的感激。
He didn't even begin to understand my problem.他甚至没有弄明白我的问题。
When you realize how much God loves you, you'll begin to live in true freedom.
当你感到上帝有多么爱你的时候，你就开始生活在自由之中了。
You realize what it means to be a Beijinger, and you begin to see your life in your city as part of a long and wonderful history.
你会认识到作为一名北京人意味着什么，你开始将自己在北京的生活视为其悠久而绚烂历史的一部分。
I can't even begin to explain to you how much I'm gonna miss you !
一想到我会那么挂念你，我根本就开不了口，更别说告别了。
If Mr Westerwelle has his way, the new coalition will begin to move Germany out of the shadow of "father state" .
如果威斯特维勒的承诺能够实现，新的执政联盟将有望使德国走出“父亲之国”的阴影。
Every time Tokyo makes a hesitant attempt to begin acting like the great power it should be, China beats the drums about the war.
每当日本没有表现出它应该有的大国风范时，中国就拿战争说事儿。
seems the boss wants me to put on a tie and begin acting like an executive.
看来老板要重用我，希望我西装革履像个行政部门官员。
We dearly desire to begin a more personal approach to you and be able to make our broadcasts together with the Galactic Federation of Light.
我们非常渴望与你们开始一个更加个人化的演讲，能够让我们与来自光的银河联邦的朋友们一同向你们广播。
To begin with, he seems to have created a straw man that bears little relation to the true assumptions made by evolutionary psychologists.
在开始，他试图创建一个假想的对手对进化心理学家的假设没有任何联系。
That means that the earliest the chamber could begin considering an alternative proposal, if it were inclined to do so, would be next week.
这意味着，如果众议院愿意考虑一项替代这项法案的议案，最早也得从下周开始。
As you and Earth align yourselves with your inner truth, so do the swirling energies begin to calm and slow down.
当你和地球赞同自己的内心真实，所以做旋转能量开始平静和减缓。
'I expect you know almost everybody living near here, 'I said. 'Do you know a woman whose names begin with the letters L. L. ? '
“我觉得您认识住儿附近的几乎每个人。”我说道，“您认识姓名以L.L。字母开头的女士吗？”
As you begin to feel loose and ready to race, visualize yourself running fast, particularly over the toughest portions of the course.
当你开始感到松弛和做好比赛准备的时候，想象一下你跑得很快的时候，尤其是你比赛最紧张的那个阶段。
They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time.
他们告诉你什么是贤慧的，什么是愚蠢的，要你一天到晚守在家里。
Christ Michael Aton, you indicated you had things to tell me, that it was time for me to begin writing more.
基督麦克艾顿，你提示有事要告诉我，是我该开始更多书写的时刻了。
Let's begin by pulling apart the term Service Data Object (SDO) to see how the name came about.
让我们首先来剖析一下服务数据对象（SDO）这个术语，看看其来源。
You'll begin to see why I believe that the rise of the article, a godlike intelligent machine, will be so disruptive later this century.
你将会看到我所认为的人工智力崛起--一个上帝一样聪明的机器，将在这个世纪晚些时候带来很大的干扰性。
As you close your eyes and tune in to your imagination, you sense a soft glowing warmth begin to surround and pulsate around your body.
当你闭上你的双眼并沉浸于你的想象中时，你感知到一股柔和带着光芒的暖流开始环绕并跳动在你身体周围。
Good morning. I can't begin to tell you how honored I am to be before such a distinguished group of entrepreneurs.
早上好。诸位都是创业的杰出代表，我在此发表讲话，首先感到荣幸之至。
Now we were finally ready to begin the painstaking work of building the first evolving intelligent system.
现在我们最终准备好开始首个进化智能系统的辛苦构建工作。
was that she was about to begin a secret interrelationship.
是她要与老板开始一段秘密的相互关系了。
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