Thirty-two teams will start the World Cup in South Africa with dreams of reaching football glory.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

This thing better start turning negative soon or we are going to change the way the world works here.

它们很容易一开始就转化成负的,或者我们将取改变那儿工作方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In fact, if you start thinking more about the world from this perspective, the world we live in is crazy.

如果你开始更多的,从这个观点去思考这个世界,我们生存的世界是很疯狂的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I'm Steve Ember. Germany's attack on Poland and the start of World War Two in Europe presented a problem for Americans in September of nineteen-thirty-nine.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

So now that we begin to have this ability to express strings in memory, to understand what they are, we can start to apply actually real-world algorithms to them.

现在我们开始用这个技能来在内存中表达字符串,来理解它们是什么，我们可以开始,我们可以对其使用实际的，现实生活中的算法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

President Truman and his military advisers were concerned World War Three would start.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Before we start on the trip, I want the children to know where in the world they are and where they've come from.

在我们开始旅行前，我希望孩子们知道,他们在世界的那个位置,他们来自哪里。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Jackson says, which gives plant breeders around the world a head start in improving food production.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Now, this research suggests that infants' understanding of the physical world is there from the very start, but at the same time not entirely.

这个研究表明,婴儿从出生,就对物质世界有所理解,但同时这种理解并不完善

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I am not ready for tomorrow. I am ready for yesterday. If you wanted to start your World Cup yesterday, I would have said I am ready."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Unless you take the things that you don't like about this world and you flip them upside down and you can start that today.

除非你把在这世上讨厌的事物,翻转过来，你们可以从今天开始。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And,the country should not do that because if the country starts to do this, any terrorist in the world could start hijacking somebody and then our country would be forced to make concessions."

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Again, we have to ask ourselves, we have to start thinking of the question about what does this mean for doing something about changing the world's diet, changing the nation's diet, changing the world's diet?

让我们来问问自己,考虑一下这个问题,改变一个国家的饮食文化,改变这个世界的饮食,这意味着什么

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I think as the series goes on he accepts more and more that he is part of the contemporary world and I think all the things that were deemed to be flaws before start fading away.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

He's also decided to give up leadership in Light up the World Foundation to start a company in India that will develop a more energy-efficient and cheaper lighting system that he hopes will bring even more light to the world's poor.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13