| 释义 |
Noun: beginning bi'gining- The event consisting of the start of something
"the beginning of the war" - The time at which something is supposed to begin
- commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset - The first part or section of something
"'It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" - The place where something begins, where it springs into being
"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
- origin, root, rootage, source - The act of starting something
"he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
- start, commencement
Adjective: beginning bi'gining- Serving to begin
"the beginning canto of the poem"
- first
Verb: begin (began,begun,beginning) bi'gin- Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
"We began working at dawn"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"
- get down, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence - Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
"The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"
- start - Set in motion, cause to start
"The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
- lead off, start, commence - Begin to speak or say
"Now listen, friends," - Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
"The number 'one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester" - Have a beginning, of a temporal event
"WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month" - Have a beginning characterized in some specified way
"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"
- start - Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
"begin a cigar"
- start - Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
"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" - Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
"She began Russian at an early age"
Derived forms: beginnings See also: beginner, opening Type of: accomplish, achieve, act, attain, be, change of state, division, happening, mouth, move, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, part, point, point in time, reach, section, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize Antonym: end, ending, middle Encyclopedia: Begin Begin, Menachem Begin, Menachem Wolfovitch Beginning |