These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end?

这是开始，没错；但当你还没有看到结果如何的时候，你怎么能确切地知道，即使是猜测到，结果呢？

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Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice - 'Resist the beginnings' and' Consider the end. '.

自从这些事发生以来我就不断地在反复回想那一对格言，Principiis obsta和Finem respice—‘拒绝开始’和‘考虑后果’。

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AMID the new beginnings, an end is in sight.

在新的起点中，终点已经靠近。

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She points to village houses at both end of the road, where cooperative loans have helped bring the beginnings of prosperity.

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Ramanathan, had risen from humble beginnings to end life as a Prime Minister (Chief Advisor) to no less than two important Regional Monarchs.

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During detente and the beginnings of the end of the Cold War, articles warned readers not to trust those who suggested that the Soviets could change.

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Long believed lost, the movie has now been partly reconstructed from footage found in 1985, and is wrapped in a documentary that explains its unlikely beginnings and untimely end.

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