But food is just the beginning. Marty Ross works for the United Soybean Board which is a U.S.trade group.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

We are really just at the very beginning of open course ware, but it's a very exciting time and I look forward to seeing you in class and seeing you in class we'll talk more about this.

我们仅仅在开放课程网站的起步阶段,但这是个令人振奋的时刻,我期待在课堂上看到你,并且在课堂上与你讨论这些问题。

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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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But it is just the beginning. We have a ways to go. Unemployment is high and still rising.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Against the backdrop of Marx's thought pervading - not just Russian life but beginning to pervade Russian government-- against this backdrop, the idea of struggle, as in class struggle, is going to predominate.

马克思的思想不但席卷,俄国普通百姓的生活，并且开始影响俄国政府-,在这样的背景下，人们认为阶级斗争是历史发展的主要推动力。

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But in the course of history, we settled beginning in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, down into just two patterns: what we call the major pattern and the minor pattern.

但在历史的发展过程中,在十六到十七世纪期间,人们最终确定了下列两种模式,我们称之为大调模式和小调模式

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I don't know who's coming next class, or what but I'll set up a few minutes prior, at the beginning of the class, for people just to introduce themselves to the person next to them so they have some sort of resource in the class.

我不知道下节课会有谁来,有什么情况,不过我会在课程开始的时候,先安排几分钟,让你们向前后左右的同学,进行一番自我介绍,这样你们就能在这个班里,认识一些新同学了

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