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begin
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英 [bɪˈɡɪn]

vt.开始;使开始;创建;是…的创始人;开始;进入(某种状态);(用于强调);开始说;

vi.开始;着手;开头;开始说;开始(职业生涯);

双语例句
  • Their trial will shortly begin.

    他们的审讯很快就要开始。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Begin when I give the command.

    我发出命令时开始。

    《牛津词典》
  • When will you begin recruiting?

    你们何时开始招募人员?

    《牛津词典》
  • We'll go slowly to begin with.

    我们开始时会慢慢来的。

    《牛津词典》
  • When does the concert begin?

    音乐会什么时间开始?

    《牛津词典》
  • The tragedies begin to interlock.

    这些悲剧开始互相关联。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • She nodded at him to begin speaking.

    她点头示意他开始讲话。

    《牛津词典》
  • To begin with he was Prince Charming.

    刚开始他就像是白马王子。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The trial is due to begin next month.

    审判定于下个月开始。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Let's begin at page 9.

    咱们从第9页开始。

    《牛津词典》
  • Campaigning will begin in earnest tomorrow.

    活动明天正式开始。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • They wish to begin immediately after dinner.

    他们希望晚饭后紧接着开始。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The meeting will begin at ten o'clock prompt.

    会议将于十点钟准时开始。

    《牛津词典》
  • Most roses will begin to bloom from late May.

    大多数玫瑰从五月末开始开花。

    《牛津词典》
  • Shall I begin?

    我可以开始了吗?

    《牛津词典》
  • They begin another round of negotiations today.

    他们今天开始了另一轮的谈判。

    《牛津词典》
  • Can you cue me when you want me to begin speaking?

    你要我开始讲话时能给我暗示一下吗?

    《牛津词典》
  • If you're all sitting comfortably, then I'll begin.

    要是你们都坐好了,那么我就开始。

    《牛津词典》
  • Work will now begin to test the hypothesis in rats.

    在老鼠身上验证这一假设的工作现在要开始了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • They begin to mute their voices, not be as assertive.

    他们开始放低嗓门,不再那么肯定了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The work on the house will begin in earnest on Monday.

    这栋房子的修建工作将在星期一正式开始。

    《牛津词典》
  • Your baby will begin to vocalize long before she can talk.

    你的女婴在会说话前很早就要开始咿呀发声了。

    《牛津词典》
  • The first clinical trials were expected to begin next year.

    第一批临床试验预计明年开始。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The band was scheduled to begin rehearsals for a concert tour.

    乐队按计划开始了为巡回音乐会进行的排练。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Today they begin the forced repatriation of Vietnamese boat people.

    今天他们开始强制遣返越南船民。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The sperm fuses with the egg to begin the process of fertilization.

    精子与卵子结合开始受精过程。

    《牛津词典》
  • The celebrations proper always begin on the last stroke of midnight.

    正式庆典总是在午夜钟声的最后一响开始。

    《牛津词典》
  • The primroses should begin to seed themselves down the steep hillside.

    报春花应该开始沿那个陡峭的山坡一路撒播种子了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • You begin to understand what actions were the mainspring of the story.

    你开始明白什么是这个故事的主要情节了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Most members of the congregation begin arriving a few minutes before services.

    多数会众成员在礼拜开始前几分钟陆续到达。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
短语搭配
  • begin with

    以…开始;开始于…

  • begin at

    几点开始;从……开始

  • begin again

    重新开始;重做

  • begin to do

    开始做某事

  • begin as

    作为…开始

  • begin doing

    开始做某事

近义词
反义词
同义词辨析

begin, start, commence, initiate, inaugurate

这些动词均含有\开始\之意。

  • begin : 最常用词,含义广泛,其反义词是end,多用于行动、工作等的开始。

  • start : 在许多场合可与begin通用,但start侧重动作的起点。

  • commence : 可与begin换用,但commence系书面正式用词,语气庄重,特指有正式程序或一定仪式,或某种正式行动的开始。

  • initiate : 指创始或发起,侧重某过程的第一步,不考虑结束,强调起始。

  • inaugurate : 指正式而隆重的开始。

考纲分布

6年出现 385

重要程度
  • 94%

    v 开始; 着手于

  • 6%

    v 开始出现/形成

考纲释义
  • v. 开始; 着手于

    英文释义:

    do the first part of an action

    真题例句:

    • You'll begin each new day with a head start, already knowing what needs to be done.

      你会提前开始新的一天,提前知道要做什么。

      [2020年 长沙市卷 阅读理解]
    • As temperatures have increased, however, some of the ice has begun to disappear.

      然而,随着气温上什,一些冰川开始消失。

      [2019年 北京市卷 阅读问答]
    • Our neighbours went downstairs and began chatting outside.

      我们的邻居下楼了,开始在外面聊天。

      [2018年 上海市卷 选词填空]
  • v. 开始出现/形成

    英文释义:

    come into existence; start to have a feeling or thought

    真题例句:

    • The history of tea begins in Asia.

      茶的历史起源于亚洲。

      [2020年 南京市卷 阅读理解]
    • The story began not so very long ago, as the first astronauts were not people—they were animals.

      这个故事发生在不久前,因为第一批宇航员不是人——它们是动物。

      [2019年 广州市卷 语法选择]
    • Plogging, a new way to exercise, began in Sweden(瑞典).

      搏击,一种新的锻炼方式,起源于瑞典。

      [2019年 哈尔滨市卷 阅读理解]
必考短语
必考派生词
  • beginningn. 开端;开始;起点;开头;背景;出身;最早阶段;一种关系的结束和另一种关系的开始;最先的部分

  • beginnern. 初学者;新手

用法讲解
  • 注意begin为瞬间动词,不能与表示一段时间的时间状语连用。电影开演半个小时了。误 The film has begun for half an hour.正 The film has been on for half an hour.

  • begin to do和begin doing都表示“开始做某事”,二者的区别在于:(1)begin doing通常只表示有意识的动作。示例:When did you begin learning English?你什么时候开始学英语的?(2)主语不指人时,多用begin to do。示例:It began to rain.开始下雨了。(3)begin本身为ing形式,或后接表示心理活动的词时,多用begin to do。示例:I was beginning to think you'd never come.我开始以为你是不会来了。(4)begin to do仅强调新情况的发生,而begin doing除强调新动作本身外,还隐含该动作将持续一段时间的意思。示例:They have begun building the house.他们已开始建造房子了。(5)begin后接被动结构的词时,多用begin to do。示例:The novel began to be written last year.这小说去年开始写

单词辨析
  • begin最常用词,含义广泛,其反义词是end,多用于行动、工作等的开始。

  • start在许多场合可与begin通用,但start侧重动作的起点。

考纲分布

12年出现 91

重要程度
  • 100%

    vi/vt 开始

考纲释义
  • vi/vt. 开始

    真题例句:

    • This bit of success, however, was the point where my problem began.

      然而,这一点成功,却是我的问题开始的地方。

      [2021年 天津卷 阅读理解]
    • My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.

      我的纳税职业生涯始于中学,那时我在一家烘焙厂工作了整整三天。

      [2021年 新高考Ⅰ卷 完形填空]
    • We begin on 1st June with Manchester Camerata and Nicola Benedetti, presenting an amazing programme of Mozart pieces.

      我们将于6月1日开始与Manchester Camerata和Nicola Benedetti一起上演莫扎特作品的精彩节目。

      [2021年 新高考II卷 阅读理解]
必考短语
必考派生词
  • beginningn. 开端;开始;起点;开头;背景;出身;最早阶段;一种关系的结束和另一种关系的开始;最先的部分

真题例句
  • After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文
  • After boats began flying special flags noting the inspector was aboard, the keeper's family made it a game to see who could notice the boat first.

    2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文
  • After several weeks' successful work, I began to notice that egg production was going down.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 完形填空 原文
  • All across the country, recovery centers have begun building healing gardens.

    2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • And the meetings, when do they begin?

    2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文
  • As I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • As one group of workers carried out the rubbish, another group began removing seats and other theater equipment in preparation for the building's end.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • As the months went by, I began to realize that I actually wanted to walk misty.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • At the beginning, when friends offered to take her through her paces, I declined because I knew they had their own households to deal with.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • At this point, when all the children were willing to share their experiences, I began to learn how to teach.

    2015年高考英语湖南卷 完形填空 原文
  • Before long, the cat began to look ragged (蓬乱).

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Begin keeping track of the time, and try to make dinner last at 30 minutes.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • But when no one else came forward, Taylor ran to Paris and began doing CPR, \It was scary.\

    2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Donations began flooding in from hundreds of people.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • During the journey, Raynor began a career as a nature writer.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
  • Every year since 1818, the people of Zurich, Switzerland, celebrate the beginning of spring by blowing up a snowman.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Finally, dad turned off the stove, the pot began to cool and the pressure relief valve sprayed out a cloud of steam.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in seattle, I used tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.

    2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team's performance begins to decline.

    2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • From the very beginning of school, we make books and reading a constant source of possible failure and public humiliation.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Gradually, this noise began to appear during a show, and to get rid of it, I had to change to another channel and then change it back.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in manitoba and then in other provinces.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • He began studying them, trying to learn the differences between the birds and noticing their different behaviors.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文
  • His effort to reunite families with lost medals began with a christmas gift from his mother, a purple heart with the name corrado.

    2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • However, just before the annual giant vegetable competitions, an enormous rabbit begins terrorising the town.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • I actually began to build up my arm muscles肌肉 shaking my set.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • I began to learn this when I had my car crashed.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • I began to properly worry about him.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • I consulted with a physician, I hired a fitness coach, and I began to eat small and healthy meals.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • I don't think we can get there in time to see the beginning.

    2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文
  • If certain kinds begin to disappear from the ocean, Dutkiewicz said, it will change the type of fish that will be able to survive.

    2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • If they still feel good, you can begin running in them.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 选项
  • If you drop that, you begin to feel a little \dead\ inside because you're \dropping\ you.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • In Peru, local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added reflectiveness will restore the life-giving ice.

    2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • In recent years, however, young upper middle-class people in London, have begun to adopt some regional accents, in order to hide their class origins.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • In recent years, many writers have begun to speak the 'decline of class' and 'classless society' in Britain.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • In the more than five years since Hannah began her activities, she has received a lot of praises.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • It all began when Moore visited a bank with her dad.

    2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • It all begins here, by signing up to join an organization.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • It is never rare to find that Mozart packs japanese concert halls, as japanese painter Hiroshige does Paris galleries, unique works of this kind are different from today's popular art, even if they began as works of popular art.

    2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
  • It was Monday morning, and the writing class had just begin.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • John began his life in the US as a businessman.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文
  • Let's begin with the question of why people volunteer.

    2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Most important, I began to treat them like winners.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • Once we have a common interest, a friendship can begin.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 任务型读写 原文
  • One day, the cow was eating grass when it began to rain heavily.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 语法填空 原文
  • Over time, as/when the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • Post-modernist designers began to experiment with decoration and color again.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文
  • Recently, people have begun studying the connection between the natural world and healing.

    2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • She began to host \big bosses\ lunches, where she would try to persuade local business leaders to contribute to the cause.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, everyone on the bus began talking about what the boy had done, and the crowd of strangers suddenly became friendly to one another.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
  • She ultimately purchased a small piece of land with her husband and began growing their own foods.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • So even if emissions were to begin to decrease today, we would still face the challenge of adapting to climate change.

    2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • So he spent time improving his painting skills and began to sell his paintings.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文
  • Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann at a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Stress used to be an almost unknown word, but now that we are used to talking about it, I have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文
  • The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce a special feature of agriculture.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设
  • The author mentions the functions of science at the beginning of the passage to explain why many writers use science in their works.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 题设
  • The author uses a conversation at the beginning of the passage to introduce a topic.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 题设
  • The beginning of Benjamin's life as an artist.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 选项
  • The beginning of the media industry in Hilversum was marked by the establishment of a radio factory.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设
  • The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences 一 called light pollution 一 whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The boy began a landscape 风景 painting.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • The California department of motor vehicles began giving permits in April for companies to test truly self-driving cars on public roads.

    2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • The family began making preparations immediately after one of the members saw the boat.

    2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设
  • The farmer freed him, and he began to run happily around again.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • The first thing I would say is that the way you begin the conversation is very important.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 短文填词 原文
  • The foundation began another campaign called national red scarf day, a day when people donate $20 and wear red scarves in support of Canada's hungry and homeless.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • The hall was dark when I came in; the show was about to begin.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 语法填空 原文
  • The passage begins with two questions to introduce the main topic.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设
  • The presenter will use examples from his first on-line class to explain how any teacher can begin teaching on-line with teo.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • The programme beginning in August will operate in?

    2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设
  • The race began on January 27.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • The story began during my first week at college.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文
  • The students began complaining about how cold it would be.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • The visitor will enter the world of dali through an egg and is met with the beginning, the world of birth.

    2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The writer began to walk the dog.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • Then, when I came back, a strong warm wind began to blow.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文
  • There are hundreds of books, and I just don't know where to begin.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 听力 原文
  • There's a new frontier in 3D printing that's beginning to come into focus: food.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • There's tension and anxiety from the beginning as nick and amy battle for your trust.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • These effects of the Internet have become even more striking since I've begun using a smartphone.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • These results, once again, lead to concrete advice: \once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.

    2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • They began as a modestly successful musician group and ended the year as show business legends传说.

    2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • They had begun to integrate the kinds of play and teamwork they had seen the day before into their game.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文
  • This is how much temperatures have risen since the industrial age began, putting US 40% of the way to the 2℃ point.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • This new trend of newspapers for \ the man on the street \ did not begin well.

    2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Unexpectedly, I'm face-to-face with the gorilla, who begins screaming at the top of her lungs.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • We hear about the science of child development and as they begin to date we hear about the theory of sexual attraction.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
  • Whaley recalls how at the beginning of the year, when called upon to read, chris would excuse himself to go to the bathroom.

    2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • When he began practicing, he took it very casually.

    2017年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
  • When I was 50, my weight problem began to affect me seriously.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • When we begin conversations with new people, we want to feel comfortable, and so do they.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 任务型读写 原文
  • With great care she began the dangerous crossing, sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild flood waters below.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Wondering how my mum could consume them so quickly, I began observing her daily routine for two weeks.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文
  • You begin to realize that your boy, in your footsteps, could probably accomplish what you hoped for.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
考纲分布

12年出现 69

重要程度
  • 70%

    v 开始; 着手于

  • 23%

    v 开始出现/形成

  • 7%

    v (begin with)以...开始

考纲释义
  • v. 开始; 着手于

    英文释义:

    do the first part of an action

    真题例句:

    • Then they began to feed Jill with the questions and answers.

      然后他们开始向吉尔灌输这些问题以及答案。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • The core idea of making is to have an idea within your head and begin to develop it, repeat it and improve it.

      创造的核心理念在于脑袋里要有一个想法,然后开始开展它,重复它并改进它。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • In 1816, Creme began a culinary (烹饪的) journey which would forever mark his place as history's first top chef.

      1816年,Creme 开始了烹饪之旅,这永远标志着他作为历史上第一位顶级厨师的地位。

      [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • They have been huge supporters of the district's advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth.

      他们也大力支持该学区的高等数学课程。以前,高等数学课程的开课年级为四年级,现在开始开课年级调整为六年级。

      [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]
  • v. 开始出现/形成

    英文释义:

    come into existence; start to have a feeling or thought

    真题例句:

    • The eagles began breeding on the island, and also feeding on a species of native fox.

      这些鹰开始在岛上繁殖,并以当地的一种狐狸为食。

      [2021年 CET4 听力]
    • When students feel isolated or confused and reach out with questions that go unanswered, their motive son to continue begins to fade.

      当学生感到孤单或困惑时,并且提出的问题得不到解答时,他们继续学习下去的动力就会慢慢开始减退。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • By 1905, cars began to look like cars of today, with head lamps, windscreen, rubber tyres and number plates.

      到1905年,汽车开始看起来像今天的汽车,有头灯、挡风玻璃、橡胶轮胎和牌照。

      [2016年 CET4 听力]
  • v. (begin with)以...开始

    英文释义:

    have as a first element

    真题例句:

    • When there are several different assignments, make sure they begin with one they enjoy, so it seems easy to get started.

      当有几个不同的任务时,先开始做喜欢的那个,这会让事情变得容易起来。

      [2021年 CET4 听力]
    • They begin with very simple tasks, but their responsibilities gradually increase.

      他们从非常简单的任务开始,但他们的责任逐渐增强。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解C]
必考短语
必考派生词
  • beginningn. 开端;开始;起点;开头;背景;出身;最早阶段;一种关系的结束和另一种关系的开始;最先的部分

  • beginnern. 初学者;新手

用法讲解
  • begin to do和begin doing都表示“开始做某事”,二者的区别在于:(1)begin doing通常只表示有意识的动作。示例:When did you begin learning English?你什么时候开始学英语的?(2)主语不指人时,多用begin to do。示例:It began to rain.开始下雨了。(3)begin本身为ing形式,或后接表示心理活动的词时,多用begin to do。示例:I was beginning to think you'd never come.我开始以为你是不会来了。(4)begin to do仅强调新情况的发生,而begin doing除强调新动作本身外,还隐含该动作将持续一段时间的意思。示例:They have begun building the house.他们已开始建造房子了。(5)begin后接被动结构的词时,多用begin to do。示例:The novel began to be written last year.这小说去年开始写

  • 注意begin为瞬间动词,不能与表示一段时间的时间状语连用。电影开演半个小时了。误 The film has begun for half an hour.正 The film has been on for half an hour.

单词辨析
  • begin最常用词,含义广泛,其反义词是end,多用于行动、工作等的开始。常与 start 换用。

  • commence可与 begin 换用,但 commence 是书面正式用词,语气庄重,特指有正式程序或一定仪式,或某种正式行动的\开始\。

  • commencement开始、开端

  • inaugurate指正式而隆重的开始。

  • initiate指创始或发起,侧重某过程的第一步,不考虑结束,强调起始。

  • initiation介绍某人初试某活动(或技艺)。

真题例句
  • What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Veiseh began to remember the details of his everyday experiences after he met his first young love.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • It may be the beginning of a crisis.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • I've broken eggs at every stage of the process—from the very beginning to the very, very end.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Could he help explain her experiences?McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • It began to make her feel bad that some people seemed to be doing so much better than she was.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Stop worrying about what you can not controlAs we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Some of them begin to decline when people are still young.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Italians, says Counihan, traditionally began the day with a small meal.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • As customers began to queue, Mr.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • With surging obesity levels putting increasing strain on public health systems, governments around the world have begun to toy with the idea of taxing sugar as well.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The team at Frontpoint addresses the issue in a blog on its site, citing their own jam protection software and claiming that there aren't any documented cases of successful jam attack since the company began offering wireless security sensors in the 1980s.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Some began to stop taking bathroom breaks, worried that if their productivity fell they would be fired.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation—and how people persevere after setbacks—as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • From such instruction, many students began to see themselves as agents of their own brain development.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • At the beginning of seventh grade, we assessed the students' mind-sets by asking them to agree or disagree with statements such as Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't really change.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to winter time starting on October 26.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • As he got in the habit of hardwork, his grades began to soar.

    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • As I began to read about scientists, economists, and philosophers, I started imagining myself in their shoes.

    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • According to Charles Harper, chairman of ConAgra, the Healthy Choice line of frozen dinners began with his own heart attack.

    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • However the solution to any problem begins with a step in a direction.

    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Surviving the Recession America's recession began quietly at the end of

    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • The Magician   The revolution that Steve Jobs led is only just beginning When it came to putting on a show, nobody else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could match Steve Jobs

    出自-2012年12月阅读原文
  • The era of personal technology is in many ways just beginning

    出自-2012年12月阅读原文
  • So it's only when the economy is healthy again that we'll begin to see just how many broken families have been created.

    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow.

    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods

    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • I suspect that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade our privacy, it's only the beginning.

    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • Before the War, much of Britain's food was imported and when German U-boats began attacking ships bringing food to the country, Britain went on rations (配给).

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Before star chefs such as Oliver began making cooking fashionable, it was hard to find a restaurant in London that was open after 9pm

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • However, the basic picture is there from the beginning.

    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better.

    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • I think she's beginning to recognize that she contributes as much to our friendship, but I do

    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • Since this realization, I have begun to make an even more determined effort to find friends in unexpected people and places.

    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • Every major scientific discovery began with someone imagining the world to look differently from the way others saw it.

    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • Along with improving the equipment, Chris began a program to train employees to use equipment better and do simple maintenance themselves.

    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • Angeleno's business at its beginning 24 what does Mr

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • The supervisor of the laboratory is beginning to get headaches and dizzy spells because she says it's dangerous to breathe some of the chemical smoke there

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • It unties the hands of the pharmaceutical制药的industry so that they can begin treating the disease and not just the side effects, he said.

    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • But as with any study of this kind, it was unclear if that was the cause—or if breakfast-skippers were just more likely to be overweight to begin with.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • I really believe the core idea of making is to have an idea within your head一or you just borrow it from someone一and begin to develop it, repeat it and improve it.

    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Starting April 28 of this year, the National Museum of Natural history will begin renovating its fossil hall.

    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The experiment was so successful that all internal-medicine residents at the university now get iPads when they begin the program.

    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
考纲分布

12年出现 78

重要程度
  • 81%

    v 开始; 着手于

  • 19%

    v 开始出现/形成

考纲释义
  • v. 开始; 着手于

    英文释义:

    do the first part of an action

    真题例句:

    • If the farm is well managed and has enough land, and the desire to convert is sincere, a relationship can begin.

      如果农场管理得当且有足够的土地,并且真诚地希望转变,就可以开始一段合作关系。

      [2019年 CET6 阅读理解]
    • The year when most Americans began using smart phones was indentified as a turning point in young American's level of happiness.

      当大多数美国人开始使用智能手机的那一年,是美国年轻人幸福感水平的一个突变点。

      [2019年 CET6 阅读理解]
    • She began a nationwide campaign to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together while celebrating the traditional festivals.

      她发起了一场全国性的运动,希望设立一个全国性的节日,让家人聚在一起庆祝传统节日。

      [2018年 CET6 阅读理解]
  • v. 开始出现/形成

    英文释义:

    come into existence; start to have a feeling or thought

    真题例句:

    • Scores in various wellbeing measures began to go downward among young Americans in recent years.

      近年来,美国年轻人的各种幸福感衡量标准的分数开始下降。

      [2019年 CET6 阅读理解]
    • When they won money by deceiving their partner, the negative signals from the amygdala began to decrease.

      当他们欺骗同伴来赢钱时,扁桃核的负面信号开始减少。

      [2019年 CET6 阅读理解]
    • Some businesses have begun to realize it may not be effective to let consumers take full responsibility for recycling.

      一些企业已经意识到把回收利用以减少浪费的希望全都寄托在消费者身上并非有效之举。

      [2019年 CET6 阅读理解]
必考短语
必考派生词
  • beginningn. 开端;开始;起点;开头;背景;出身;最早阶段;一种关系的结束和另一种关系的开始;最先的部分

  • beginnern. 初学者;新手

用法讲解
  • 注意begin为瞬间动词,不能与表示一段时间的时间状语连用。 电影开演半个小时了。 误 The film has begun for half an hour. 正 The film has been on for half an hour.

  • begin to do和begin doing都表示“开始做某事”,二者的区别在于: (1)begin doing通常只表示有意识的动作。 示例:When did you begin learning English? 你什么时候开始学英语的? (2)主语不指人时,多用begin to do。 示例:It began to rain. 开始下雨了。 (3)begin本身为ing形式,或后接表示心理活动的词时,多用begin to do。 示例:I was beginning to think you'd never come. 我开始以为你是不会来了。 (4)begin to do仅强调新情况的发生,而begin doing除强调新动作本身外,还隐含该动作将持续一段时间的意思。 示例:They have begun building the house. 他们已开始建造房子了。 (5)begin后接被动结构的词时,多用begin to do。 示例:The novel began to be written last year. 这小说去年开始写

单词辨析
  • begin最常用词, 含义广泛, 其反义词是end, 多用于行动、工作等的开始。常与 start 换用。

  • commence可与 begin 换用, 但 commence 是书面正式用词, 语气庄重, 特指有正式程序或一定仪式, 或某种正式行动的\开始\。

  • commencement开始、开端

  • inaugurate指正式而隆重的开始。

  • initiate指创始或发起, 侧重某过程的第一步, 不考虑结束, 强调起始。

  • initiation介绍某人初试某活动(或技艺)。

真题例句
  • The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The Los Angeles Math Circle, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 2007 with 20 students and now has more than 250.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The German traveler Johann Winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture; he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Many aristocrats began to move into Roman-style villas.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • The Consumer Electronics Show in recent years has begun to focus more on the practical value than the showiness of electronic devices.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Glimmers ( ' , 少许 ) of hope, however, are beginning to emerge in this bruising environment: Americans are becoming aware of the toll their jobs take on them, and employers are exploring ways to alleviate the harmful effects of stress and overwork.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Politicians are beginning to realise the importance of enlisting psychologists' help in fighting climate change.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • On top of the tragic loss of life, the accident in California will cast a long shadow over the future of space tourism, even before it has properly begun.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • However, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as smart buildings and even cities increasingly become the norm as leaders and business owners begin to wake up to the massive savings that technology can deliver through connected sensors and new fo

    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • If the farm is well managed and has enough land, and the desire to convert is sincere, a relationship can begin.

    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • I'm having some problems getting started on my dissertation and I was hoping you could give me some advice on how to begin.

    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • It's in these populations that we begin to see real changes in the genetic makeup of natural coloring.

    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Now, I'd like to begin by saying that I have on occasions used an interpreter myself as a foreign correspondent.

    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The more we dwell on negative emotions, the more negative we begin to feel.

    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • To begin to figure out how computers are struggling, researchers at the University of Washington created a massive database of faces—they call it MegaFace—and tested a variety of facial-recognition algorithms as they scaled up in complexity.

    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • We believe that the number of people who fit that definition includes the majority of American workers, which prompted us to begin a study of workaholism in the U.S..

    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
考纲分布

18年出现 28

重要程度
  • 75%

    v 着手进行

  • 25%

    v 开始

考纲释义
  • v. 着手进行

    英文释义:

    do the first part of an action

    真题例句:

    • Along with Singapore, other governments and mega-corporations are beginning to establish their own guidelines.

      与新加坡一样,其他政府和大型企业也开始制定自己的指导方针。

      [2019年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • When the recovery began, worker shortages first appeared in the high-skilled trades.

      当复苏开始的时候,首先缺乏的就是高级技工。

      [2017年 英语二 阅读理解B]
    • We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.

      我们可能会开始解决我们的移民挑战。

      [2013年 英语二 阅读理解A]
  • v. 开始

    英文释义:

    come into existence; start to have a feeling or thought

    真题例句:

    • The history of the EEOB began long before its foundations were laid.

      EEOB的历史远在奠基之前就开始了。

      [2018年 英语一 阅读理解B]
    • Construction of a building to house all three departments began in June of 1871.

      于1871年6月开始建造一座供三个部门使用的大楼。

      [2018年 英语一 阅读理解B]
    • The Parkrun phenomenon began with a dozen friends and has inspired 400 events in the UK and more abroad.

      跑酷这一现象最初由十几个朋友发起,如今在英国却已引发四百个类似活动,在国外就更多了。

      [2017年 英语二 阅读理解A]
必考短语
必考派生词
  • beginningn. 开端;开始;起点;开头;背景;出身;最早阶段;一种关系的结束和另一种关系的开始;最先的部分

用法讲解
  • 表示“开始”begin指为某一过程或进程开个头,常可与 start 换用。start指动作开始且持续下去,强调开始这一事实。commence指开始某种正式行动,常伴有正式程序或一定的仪式,语气庄重。这三个词为瞬时动词,通常不可与表示一段时间的状语连用。

单词辨析
  • begin较常用于书面语中,描述一系列事情的开始。

  • start指开始讲话,或作“动身,发动;流出;惊起”等意,较常用于口语和商业语境中。

真题例句
  • Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

    出自-2009年考研翻译原文
  • Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

    出自-2009年考研阅读原文
  • At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

    出自-2010年考研翻译原文
  • In fat, circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.

    出自-2011年考研翻译原文
  • This trend ,which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.

    出自-2011年考研阅读原文
  • As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.

    出自-2011年考研阅读原文
  • This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading - between passive consumption and active creation - whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine.

    出自-2012年考研阅读原文
  • As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.

    出自-2012年考研阅读原文
  • How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

    出自-2015年考研阅读原文
  • Since the beginning, this price tag has been PreCheck’s fatal flaw.

    出自-2017年考研阅读原文
  • The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

    出自-2018年考研翻译原文
  • A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.

    出自-2018年考研翻译原文
  • We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later.

    出自-2018年考研阅读原文
  • To the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house all three departments began in June of 1871.

    出自-2018年考研阅读原文
  • The history of the EEOB began long before its foundations were laid.

    出自-2018年考研阅读原文
  • \If we were really bold, we might even begin to think of high-calorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes—by setting strict limits on advertising, product placement and sponsorship of sport events,\ he said.

    2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Earlier this year the country's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced plans to pay Boeing to investigate formation flighty though the programme has yet to begin.

    2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry because they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow.

    2011年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
  • We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.

    2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

    2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ