For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Complimented, my eye. She kissed me on my pure brow," and my darling emitted that new yelp of merriment which, perhaps in connection with her theatrical mannerisms, she had lately begun to affect."

是的，夸奖我的眼睛，她亲吻了我漂亮的眉毛“,我亲爱的洛丽塔发出了欢快的叫喊声，那也许和她戏剧性的行为方式有关，她随后开始变得做作起来“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

Laura was Jewish. Later the Fermis decided to leave Italy, because the Fascist government had begun oppressing Jews.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Certain moral principles have already begun to emerge from the discussions we've had.

某些道德原则，已经随着我们讨论的展开,逐渐开始浮现出来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She joined a close friend, Zilpah Grant, who had begun another private school, Ipswich Female Seminary.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Milton corrects -- it's as if he's correcting the sense of monotony with which he had begun the poem, and he corrects that sense of monotony by rewriting that initial phrase.

弥尔顿纠正道-正如他纠正那种单调的枯燥感,他用诗歌的开头句进行了纠正，他还通过重写开头句来纠正那种枯燥感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

House members had already begun a six-week holiday when the Senate approved the measure last week.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

And officials said the study had begun long before the latest debate on health reform.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Bell had begun experimenting with electricity and sound when he was eighteen years old.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

By the time of her death in nineteen twelve, she had begun a revolution that led to the right of women to do responsible work for society.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

They had begun to leave the Union over the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

It had begun to harm President Lyndon Johnson's popular and political support.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Many of them had begun to paint pictures they called "abstract."

VOA: special.2011.03.13

When she entered the theater, the play had already begun.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Three areas still had overfishing, but corrective measures have begun.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

A serious depression had begun during Grant's second term.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Her career as a successful artist had begun.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Copernicus had begun a scientific revolution.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

World War One had begun by then.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

It said war had begun.

VOA: special.2009.02.26