It all began three or four years ago when there was construction boom.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The sky leaked all over all of it, and then it began to leak in to the car.

天空就像四处在漏水，然后车里开始进水。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Yet, for all that, it didn't exist before my body began to exist.

然而它并不是先于我的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

to the place where it all began for Michael Jackson. The small home where he grew up not far from downtown Gary is now a shrine to the late singer and his family.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

And the other direction is instead of creating all this uncertainty, which all the intervention does, quite a size of Americans are particular interventionists, it gave a tremendous certainty because it began the practice of cause plus contract military equipment suppliers.

另一个方向是,除了制造这些不确定，就像所有干预政策带来的一样，许多美国人,很赞同干预政策，因为他能给人们确定感,因为他开启了,合同行为,与军事武器供应商的合同。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

But it does say that all three began to find large amounts.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

In my view, we need especially to examine the older traditions of the West that came before the modern era, and to take seriously the possibility that useful wisdom can be found there, especially among the Greeks who began it all.

所以我认为,我们得研究学习古时的,西方文明体系,认真的对待其中,实用智慧的潜在价值,特别是古希腊人的经验

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's funny... but in the middleof all that fun, I began to think about Jenny, wondering how she wasspending her New Year's night out in California.

VOA: standard.other

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25