Drug-related violence in Mexico has killed more than seven thousand people since the beginning of last year -- often with guns bought in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Who here has been making it since the beginning of the semester on under six hours a night?

谁从本学期开学到现在,每晚睡不到六小时的？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Oh,I should do this,now,perhaps, since it's the beginning of the semester.

也许我现在就应该说清楚，因为这学期刚开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Keith Hall,Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the November figure, which still represents is the lowest monthly job loss since the beginning of the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Every other book in this political science that has since been written, beginning with Aristotle's Politics and moving on to the present day is, in one way or another, an answer, a response to Plato's Republic.

这门政治科学,所用的其它现存读物，从亚里士多德的《政治学》,一直到今日的其它著作，多少都只是，对柏拉图的《理想国》回答或响应。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Somali pirates are blamed for seizing more than 20 vessels since the beginning of last month and are holding more than Piracy is a lucrative, albeit dangerous,business.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Despite Pakistan's public objections, the United States has sharply increased the number of drone strikes in the last year, with more than 40 since the beginning of 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

"Since the very beginning, I have been advocating the rather unpopular concept that communism was not defeated, that it collapsed or simply melted down .

VOA: standard.2009.11.03