So each hour's time difference between the ship and the starting point marks a ship's progress of fifteen degrees of longitude to the east or west.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

And even though he could figure out that this wasn't possible, he still used this as a starting point, and what he did know was that these energy levels that were within hydrogen atom were quantized.

这是不可能的了,但他还是以此为出发点，他知道，氢原子的这些能级,是量子化的,而且他也知道，我们上节课所看到现象。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And as a starting point there's a lovely quote from the psychologist and philosopher William James that I want to begin with.

作为开始,有一个可爱的引言,是心理学家和哲学家,威廉，詹姆斯说的,我想用它做开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It is the starting point for state visits complete with red carpets and marching bands.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

So that's why we have this zero point here, and just to point out again and again and again, it's not a radial node, it's just a point where we're starting our graph, because we're multiplying it by r equals zero.

这就是为什么在这里有个零点，我需要再三强调，这不是径向零点，他只是我们画图的起始处，因为我们用ｒ等于０乘以它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

U.S.officials said they were hopeful the 7,000 figure for new allied forces would be just a starting point, and that additional commitments could come as soon as a NATO force-generating meeting set for next week in the Belgian city of Mons.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

In binary search-- ah, there's that wonderful phrase, this is called a version of binary search just like you saw bin-- or bi-section methods, - when we were doing numerical things- in binary search, I need to keep track of the starting point and the ending point of the list I'm looking at.

就是当我们处理数字的时候，所称的二分检索，在二分法搜索中,我需要记录区间的开始点和尾点，初始化的时候就是-,问题输入的开始点和尾点，当我开始做测试的时候,我想要做的就是去取中值点。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

As time increases, the angle increases and we can ask, "How long does it take for the particle to come back to the starting point?"

这个角度随着时间在增加,我们会问,"质点需要多长时间,才能转到起点"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So the flaw in the argument that Chris and Ryan had -- it isn't a bad argument, it's a good starting point but the flaw in the argument, the mistake in the argument was the first sentence in the argument.

所以克里斯和瑞恩的说法的漏洞在于,这并不是一个错误的说法,这是一个很好的出发点,但其中存在漏洞,其中的漏洞在于第一句话

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

There's a line segment, it's got a starting point and ending point.

做一个线段，需要一个，开始点和一个结束点。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The point here is when you're playing a game, you want to think about what other people are trying to do, to try and predict what they're trying to do, and it's not necessarily a great starting point to assume that the people around you are random number generators.

这里的要点是当你在进行游戏时,你想要推测出其他人的想法,想要推测出他们可能的选择,假设别人是随机数生成器可不是,一个很好的出发点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选