beginning

复数：beginnings

1. [C][U]开始 first part
2. [C][U]源,根源 source; origin

• auspicious beginning吉祥的开端
• every beginning每一个开端
• excellent beginning极好的开端
• favourable beginning良好的开端
• good beginning良好的开端
• hopeful beginning有希望的开端
• little beginning微不足道的开端
• modest beginning平淡无奇的开端
• promising beginning大有希望的开端
• successful beginning成功的开端
• suitable beginning适当的开端
• unpromising beginning毫无希望的开端
• unrecorded beginning没有记载的开端

• at the beginning在…开始
• in the beginning在…开始时

• beginning of…的开始
• beginning with在…方面的开端

at the beginning首先；从一开始；起初；从头开始

at the beginning of在……的开始

from beginning to end自始至终

from the beginning从一开始；从开始到现在；从开始一直

in the beginning开始，开端；起初

from the very beginning adv. 从最初开始（首先）

at the very beginning最初；就在刚刚开始；在刚开始的时候；起初；在一开始

beginning period初期

1. The trees are just beginning to leaf.
   树刚刚开始长叶子。
2. He was biased against the plan from the beginning.
   他从一开始就对这个计划有偏见。
3. The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
   认罪是得救的开端。
4. We have already made a good beginning.
   我们已经有了一个良好的开端。
5. English democracy had its beginning in the Magna Charta.
   英国的民主起源於大宪章。
6. He presented a new concept of the beginning of the universe.
   他提出了一种宇宙起源的新概念。
7. Fr.Sergio Ticozzi has recently finished his manuscript on the biographies of PIME fathers in Hong Kong from the very beginning of the mission.
   在香港工作的会士传记，包括最早期在香港开展传教工作的传教士之生平及工作实录。
8. Stylistically, this image has undergone constant changes in China, beginning with a formative phase mainly relying on the stylistic influence from India.
   半跏思惟像在中国发展的进程，从早期样式化的生硬造型，一方面接受外来形式的影响，一方面又融入民族的传统理念，开始佛像民族化的进程。

1. That’s why, in this beginning stage of my new habit, I've been focusing on pleasure.
   这就是为什么在我刚开始锻炼的时候，我总是把焦点放在锻炼的乐趣上。
2. I have some problem about efficiency in my beginning term.
   最近时间安排上有些问题，导致了效率低下。