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beginning

英[bɪ'gɪnɪŋ] 美[bɪ'ɡɪnɪŋ]
  • n. 开始;起点
  • v. 开始;创建(begin的ing形式)

英英释意


1. the event consisting of the start of something;
"the beginning of the war"
2. 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"
3. the first part or section of something;
"`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
4. 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"
5. the act of starting something;
"he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"