writer Aife Murray says Dickinson's poems often got their start in her kitchen, where she spent a large portion of each day,baking.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

So let me start off with-- is this the first day of shopping or was it yesterday?

首先我想问一下,第一次的试听课是今天还是昨天

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

What this means, if you average it out, is that since children start learning their first words at about their first year of life, they learn about nine new words a day.

如果你将这个数字平均一下,这意味着,儿童从一岁左右,学习第一个词开始,每天学会九个新词

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Apparthurai's spoke at the start of a two-day NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Meanwhile,IntelCenter,a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring group that works with the U.S.government, warns the Christmas day attack could be just the start, and that the possibility of additional attempts on U.S.airplanes can not be ruled out.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26