The settlers had plans to remove water from the area and in the eighteen eighties developers began digging drainage canals.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

After he'd published all of his major poems, he began publishing a spate of works that attempted to re-create British culture from the ground up.

在发表了他的所有主要诗作后，他开始大量发表其他著作,试图以这些作品完全重建英国文化。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I could not take my eyes from it. I looked at the photograph for some hours and then began working."

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Where these stories come from began to be a problem.

这些故事的来源成了一个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

At some point there was a desire to separate, and in that process of identity formation, a polemic began to develop that created Yahweh in a distinct way, differentiated from the Canaanite deities.

某些时候，有非常强烈的分离的愿望，在这个过程中，也就形成了他们自己的身份，塑造截然不同的耶和华这一理论便开始发展，要与迦南的众神有所差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He began to receive urgent requests from poor countries where population growth was more than the food supply could feed.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

And I don't know, I used to love to quote from it but then I began to realize I'm only quoting that because it's about a guy's eye being gouged out.

我以前讲课很喜欢从中引用,后来我意识到我引用它只是因为,它写的是一个人的眼珠被刨出来而已

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The one with the large spear got down from the back of his animal and began walking toward me.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

There was a sense that she'll never be from the village, she's from somewhere else; but, sometime between 1750 and maybe 1990 most-- almost everybody in France began seeing themselves as French.

就是有一种感觉,她从来也不是本村人,她是外地来的,但是,在1750年到最晚1990年之间的某段时间,基本上所有在法国的人都认为自己是法国人

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He began to take reporters and editors from the New York World to work for his paper.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.

其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

She did not like teaching. Elizabeth began to visit a family friend who was suffering from cancer.

VOA: special.2010.09.12

Somali officials say some fishermen armed themselves and began demanding money from fishing ships near the Somali coast about ten to fifteen years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

After eighteen sixty, the country began to change from an agricultural to an industrial economy.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

In the middle nineteen fifties, she began to suffer from the effects of Parkinson's disease.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Soon after sunrise, men began arriving at Harpers Ferry from other towns in the area.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

After eighteen eighty, the flood of immigration from northern and central Europe began to fall.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

To help him recover from what he experienced as a child, Emmanuel Jal began singing.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Then they began to die. In some of the gold centers, big mining companies bought up all the land from those who first claimed it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Soon after the photograph from Mount Suribachi was published, some people began to dispute it.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Doctor Spock began receiving many letters of thanks from mothers around the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Slowly the great dam began to rise from the floor of the canyon.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Joe Rosenthal backed away from the group and began talking to another photographer.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Southern soldiers began to burn military supplies they could not take from Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

More people began coming up to Cape May from the southern coastal states.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Researchers used information from the Framingham Heart Study, which began in nineteen forty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

From nineteen twenty-two on, Edwin Hubble began examining more and more distant objects.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

With a roar, it began to rise slowly from the launch pad.

VOA: special.2009.06.17