They were active in the twenties and thirties. They were doing biblical stories in the beginning, but then they branched out to these different folk stories.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

You may return with very different loyalties and allegiances than you had in the beginning.

可能变成具有非常不一样的忠诚,忠贞的程度更胜于开始时。

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In particular, we're going to focus in the beginning, on polio virus, which is another great success story, but where a very different approach to vaccine development was used.

特别地,在开始我们会关注脊髓灰质炎病毒,那是又一个成功的故事,但又与发现疫苗的过程不尽相同

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The idea,from the beginning, was to make the Boston Pops feel like a different way to experience music.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.

北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来

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People are beginning to believe, beginning to hope that we can do something different this time."

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

They wouldn't have said that because it doesn't sound we want to think that we invented this here but it actually was a new invention in a way because the United States has a different philosophy which the United States has been committed since its beginning to federalism.

他们不会说,因为它听起来不像,这里我们希望大家把它想成我们自己的发明,但是事实上，它确实是一个新的发明,因为美国有一个不同的哲学,这个哲学是，美国力图从一开始就,使自己成为联邦制度国家。

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