He said that as early as the beginning of the 1800s, the Chinese had started settling here.

他说，早在19世纪初，就有中国人来这里安家落户。

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The idea was quashed then, as it was as the beginning of the year when the Greek debt crisis broke out.

年初希腊债务危机爆发时，这个办法曾被撤销。

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The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in France.

传统上认为愚人节的这种传统最早开始于1582年的法国。

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The invasion is generally regarded as the beginning of World War II, which eventually involved almost all nations and killed tens of millions of people.

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And in keeping with that idea of a kind of a return to chaos, Noah is represented in a way as the beginning of a new creation.

这种观点相当于又回到混沌时代，诺亚在某种程度来说，标志着一个新的创世纪的开始。

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But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.

霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。

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This play is being seen as the beginning of a new phase of Roberts's career.

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These are still anathema to most unionists as the beginning of a slippery slope to Irish unification.

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Although Mr Struck denies it, some analysts see his plans as the beginning of the end for the draft.

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