In fact, some of these playwrights would start by writing the end of a play and work backward toward the beginning, just to make sure each event led logically from what had gone before.
事实上，一些剧作家会从剧本的结尾开始写起，然后倒着写剧本的开头，只是为了确保每一个事件都能从逻辑上与之前发生的事情联系起来。
I've broken eggs at every stage of the process—from the very beginning to the very, very end.
在此过程的每一阶段——由始至终，我都会打碎鸡蛋。
This means that if the weather is cold and stormy at the beginning of March, it will improve and be mild and gentle at the end of March.
这意味着，如果三月初天气寒冷且有暴风雨，那么三月末天气将会好转，变得温和。
This, he thought, could not be true, because the "Origin of Species" is one long argument from the beginning to the end, and has convinced many able men.
他认为这是不可能的，因为“物种起源”从始至终都处在的漫长争论中，并且说服了许多有能力的人。
The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to the beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life.
古埃及人把太阳升起比作生命的开始，太阳落下比作生命的结束。
Chinese New Year is a celebration marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
中国新年是一个标志着冬天结束和春天开始的庆祝节日。
I can remember neither the beginning nor the end, but whenever I think of it, tears run down my face.
我不记得开始，也不记得结尾，但每当我想起来，就会落泪。
It was, as Winston Churchill said, not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning.
如温斯顿·丘吉尔所说，这并不是结局的开始，而是开始的结局。
For optimists, these are all signs that might point towards the beginning of the end of the "Great Recession".
对于乐观者来说，所有这些迹象都可能表示这次“大衰退”可能开始结束了。
Others see the beginning of the end of the cycle, as high prices stifle demand and the speculators who have piled into oil and other commodities in recent years take fright.
另一些人则看到一个增长周期即将结束，其理由是高油价抑制对石油的需求，加之近年来从事石油和其他期货交易的投机者纷纷逢高出货。
Today marks the beginning of the end of deadly and disruptive epidemics in Africa's meningitis belt.
今天，非洲脑膜炎地带一种致命且具有破坏性的流行病将开始消亡。
Three things will now determine whether this marks the beginning of the end of the crisis-or the start of even deeper distress.
有三件事将决定这是危机已经开始结束还是仅仅是更深困境的开始的标志。
Now questions over America's most popular method of execution are prompting some campaigners to ask, hopefully, whether this could be the beginning of the end of capital punishment.
如今对美国最普遍的死刑执行方式的质疑促使一些运动人士满怀希望地问，这是否是死刑终止的预兆呢？
There is lots of oil still in the ground (we’ve used about half of the planet’s generous endowment), but while the end of oil may be many decades away, the beginning of the end is now.
地底下还是有很多的石油（我们目前已经消耗了地球一半的原油储备），但原油的终结可能是好几十年之外的事情，但它的开端已经开始了。
To cut into a ham in mid-winter, when food supplies dwindled and green goods were scarce, was to witness the beginning of the end-the end being, of course, starvation.
在隆冬时节，食品供应趋紧、蔬菜减少的时候，开始切开一只火腿即说明是结束的开始- - -什么结束，那当然是，结束挨饿。
And, if we can harness that power to raise awareness about the attainable goal to end transmission of HIV from moms to their babies in 2015, it could mark the beginning of the end of AIDS.
如果我们能够驾驭这种力量，那么我们2015年消除母婴传播艾滋病的目标将广泛得到关注，这将标志着艾滋病的终结。
How to make sure the latest bail-out marks the beginning of the end of the euro zone's debt crisis.
怎么才能认定最新一次的经济援助是欧元区开始摆脱债务危机的标志。
All this may explain Barack Obama's comment on Wednesday that America "may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recession".
这也是奥巴马星期三说美国“很可能开始走向衰退的结束”的缘由。
Yet it would be premature to see the closure of the News of the World as the beginning of the end of tabloid journalism.
然而，如果把《世界新闻报》的倒闭视作小报业终结的开始则为时尚早。
Many Americans would like the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq to signal the beginning of the end of America’s overall embroilment in the benighted regions of the world.
许多美国人都希望从伊退兵意味着美国开始不再过多干涉世界上蒙昧无知地区的食物。
In East Asia, the resulting sharp movement of the yen is often viewed as the beginning of the end of Japan's long post-war boom.
在东亚，日元的剧烈波动被看作是日本战后繁荣走向结束的开始。
If you tell your boss and then his wife proves you wrong, that could be the beginning of the end for you.
如果你告诉你的老板了，而她的太太又证实了那不是真的，那么也许这将是你完蛋的开始。
Some feared that it might be the beginning of the end of the administrative département. Families argued that it would ruin car games for children.
家长们担心这会毁了孩子们的汽车旅行时的游戏。
'Oh no, this is the beginning of the end,' said Bob Halliday, a Bangkok-based food writer, when told about the odourless durian. 'Making a non-smelly durian is like a thornless rose.
“噢，不可以，这是结束的开始啊，”当谈论到无臭榴莲时，常驻泰国曼谷的美国美食作家BobHalliday说，“没有臭味的榴莲就如没有刺的玫瑰。”
When I first read the new that Amazon would begin selling an ad-supported Kindle, my heart sank. This is the beginning of the end, I thought.
当看到亚马逊开始销售带广告的Kindle时，我的心哇凉哇凉的，这是代表结束的开始么，我想。
If we act together, this day can mark the beginning of the end of harmful practices like child marriage.
如果我们一起行动起来，今天这个日子，就能成为终结童婚这类陋习的标志性开端。
And feeble though this little flicker of goodwill was, it was the beginning of the end of that church feud.
虽然这一点点闪烁不定的善意是微弱的，但它是结束教堂的夙怨的开始。
And feeble though this little flicker of goodwill was, it was the beginning of the end of that church feud.
虽然这一点点闪烁不定的善意是微弱的，但它是结束教堂的夙怨的开始。
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