For it marked the beginning of the end of the world's wooden navies.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Spirit is merely a kind of bodily form of energy, and God at the beginning of time infused this energy into the entirety of the material world at the Creation.

灵魂不过是能量的一种物质形式，上帝在时间之始创世纪之际将这能量,注入到了整个物质世界之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There were some atrocities at the beginning of World War I, but there was nothing like this again until World War II and, of course, Bosnia.

一战初期的部分暴行令人毛骨悚然,而二战的惨烈程度更加骇人听闻,波斯尼亚的屠杀当然包括在内

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The invasion is generally regarded as the beginning of World War II, which eventually involved almost all nations and killed tens of millions of people.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

He spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria, but he died in London and he escaped to London soon after retreating there at the beginning of World War II as the Nazis began to occupy where he lived.

他的大半生都是居住在奥地利的维也纳，却在伦敦去世,二战伊始，随着纳粹侵占其家乡,他被迫背井离乡,后来逃到伦敦，在那里终其余生。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The U.N.report says the world's economy is beginning to show signs of modest recovery.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

For socialization, we designed the course so that at the beginning of the course and the end of the course the students were brought literarily from all over the world to New York and they spent a day with Professor Low and with each other.

为实现社会化,我们将来自世界各地的,学者聚集到纽约,并在课程开始和,结束的时候,让他们和Low教授,共同度过一整天。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But the end of World War II signaled the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and Russia in which CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers played a central role.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07