We've lost 90 percent of those since 1950. I began,as we surfed down the coast, to see where the resorts were put in.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

It leaves us where we began: asking what, finally, what is virginity good for?

他将我们带到起点：,疑惑着童贞到底有什么好处？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

By the way, if we begin by talking about poetic and practical language, we're beginning where the Russian formalists began.

谈到诗化语言和实用语言，我们就和俄国的形式主义者站到了同一个起点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"There's been a nice recovery since the horrible 2008,2009 drop but we're still below where we were when the crisis began and all through that you had record output of jetliners, so we've got this rather dangerous overcapacity situation."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30