Beginning

(noun.) the act of starting something; 'he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations'.

(noun.) the first part or section of something; '`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story'.

(noun.) the event consisting of the start of something; 'the beginning of the war'.

(noun.) the place where something begins, where it springs into being; 'the Italian beginning of the Renaissance'; 'Jupiter was the origin of the radiation'; 'Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River'; 'communism's Russian root'.

(noun.) the time at which something is supposed to begin; 'they got an early start'; 'she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her'.

(adj.) serving to begin; 'the beginning canto of the poem'; 'the first verse' .

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• These got fairly to work at the beginning of the century, and the uses of machinery spread to the treatment of leather. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I never meant, my dear Wegg--' Mr Boffin was beginning, when Silas stopped him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This was a very primitive device, requiring several minutes for the engine to make one stroke, but it was the beginning of the practical use of steam as a motive power. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He had met her before breakfast as he was returning from a walk with his little boys, when it had been just beginning to rain. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I announced on beginning it that this narrative would be a remarkable document. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was therefore from the beginning a divided thing of uncertain power, a claim and an argument rather than a necessary reality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The times were full of stir and intellectual intereSt. The distant murmur of the Reformation was beginning to be heard. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And so we find them developing fibre and support, and the beginning of _woody fibre_ in them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But we can begin without a beginning, can't we? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Until the beginning of 1882 there were only a few arc-lighting stations in existence for the limited distribution of current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I ain't mad; I'm sensible,' rejoined the fat boy, beginning to cry. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Metallurgy is an ancient art, and the working of gold, silver and copper dates back to the beginning of history. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• We again advanced, and occupied at the close of the battle substantially the ground held by the enemy at the beginning. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden legs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Of the working out of these beginnings we shall tell later. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the very beginnings of civilization the little children of the poor had always been obliged to do whatever work they could do. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• History can deal with the small beginnings in the past of the great things of the present, but in the present only with what is plain and obvious. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Beautiful records of such beginnings of science were among the neglected treasures of the rich men's libraries throughout the imperial domains. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To this period belong the beginnings of Buddhistic art. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In its rude beginnings, the unimproved wilds, which then occupy the far greater part of the country, are all abandoned to cattle. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• With the beginnings of agriculture a fresh set of ideas arose in men's minds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We have told of the first release of human curiosity and of the beginnings of systematic inquiry and experiment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• History is and must always be no more than an account of beginnings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We have already, in our first account of Chinese beginnings, noted the existence of these Huns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We have dealt thus fully with the beginnings of science in the Middle Ages because of its ultimate importance in human affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It seems to have done so universally in the rude beginnings of agriculture. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• To watch this schism creeping across the brave beginnings of Islam is like watching a case of softening of the brain. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This lovely efflorescence marks the appearance of a body of craftsmen closely linked in its beginnings to the church. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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