对我和沃尔的关系来说，这是个不好的开端。

It was a bad start in my relationship with Warr.

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德纳姆女士的报告是一个可喜的开端。

Ms Denham's report is a welcome start.

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他的演说是宴会的开端。

His speech was the party starter.

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And it's given here this sort of cliched, noble origin with the Native American, the Plains Indian.

在这儿讲有些陈词滥调的，美洲原住民草原印第安人的高尚开端。

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What could possibly be more presumptuous than the association of the beginning of one's own career, one's own literary career, with the birth of the Christian messiah?

还有什么能够比,把自己事业的开端，自己的文学生涯，与基督教救世主的诞生相提并论更胆大妄为的？

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Well, Black Boy, or American Hunger, as it was then called, covered the part in Mississippi, and then the beginnings of his life in Chicago.

黑孩子》，或者说是后来来的《美国饥饿》,讲到了密西西比的生活,以及在芝加哥生活的开端。

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