Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago.
这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前就已动工了，是在5个月以前竣工的。
It had begun as an electrical fire in the Zebra room, adjacent to the bride's dressing room.
火灾是从新娘化妆室旁“斑马屋”的电火花开始的。
He had lung cancer, at age 53. It had begun to spread, and doctors told him it was inoperable.
53岁的他患上了肺癌，已经开始扩散，医生说他不适宜动手术。
When he admitted to the fraud, Madoff said it had begun in the 1990s, as he tried to navigate the recession.
当他承认了诈骗罪时，麦道夫说这宗诈骗开始于1990年代，那时他曾尝试操纵衰退。
We talked about starlight, how it had begun its journey thousands of years ago and we were looking back in time.
我们谈论星光，说起它如何于数千年前就踏上旅程，而我们其实是在回望过去。
Should rational thought win out over romance, any relationship in question would surely fade as quickly as it had begun.
若理性思想战胜了浪漫思想，那么问题中的任何关系都会迅速褪色，就像它开始的那样。
As we stood there silently, peering into the brush, the waves crashing below, we barely noticed that it had begun drizzling.
我们站在这里默默地，窥视画笔，怒涛下面，我们几乎没有注意到它已经开始细雨。
The storm stopped as quickly as it had begun. And suddenly the second tree knew he was carrying the King of heaven and earth.
在一霎那间第二棵树明白到它正载著天上和地上之王。
Google said Monday that it had begun to offer in China links to free music downloads, a service it does not offer anywhere else in the world.
谷歌周一宣布在中国将提供免费音乐下载的连接，这项服务只在这片神奇的土地上提供。
But Google did note that it had begun to use across its network the "DoubleClick ad-serving cookie," a computer code that allows the tracking of Web surfing.
但是Google没有提到它已经开始在其所有网络使用“DoubleClick广告服务cookie”，一段用来跟踪上网行为的电脑代码。
The company had long been performing the ceremony in Sapporo, but it had begun to receive inquiries from people in other parts of Japan, where the ritual was less common.
尽管该公司长期在札幌从事业务，但后来却不断收到日本其他地方民众的请求，而在那些地方，入殓仪式并不常见。
Sony, which declined to comment earlier this week on the incidents at Foxconn, said on Friday it had begun taking steps to re-evaluate the working environment at Foxconn.
本周早些时候曾经拒绝对富士康自杀事件进行评论的索尼（Sony）周五表示，将重新评估富士康工厂的工作条件。
And Google Inc., the leading online advertiser, stated that it had begun using Internet tracking technology that enabled it to more precisely follow Web-surfing behavior across affiliated sites.
领先的在线广告商Google公司表示，它已经开始在其所有从属网站使用能更精确地跟踪网民上网行为的互联网跟踪技术。
But, while Wilshere fulfilled that potential to become an established member of arsene Wenger's side, Frimpong was hit with a serious knee injury that effectively ended his season before it had begun.
但一边是威尔谢尔意气风发，充分发挥了自己的潜力并渐渐的成为了温格帐下的重要一员，另一边，弗林蓬却在赛季前遭到了严重的膝盖伤势而宣告赛季报销。
It was awfully hard for Heidi to stop crying when she had once begun, for she cried so seldom.
小海蒂很少哭，但一旦她开始哭，就很难从悲伤中恢复过来。
It was tough talk, coming from a man who had begun the year in a hospital bed.
这话出自年初住进医院的一位男子之口，语气很强硬。
She had even begun to find it interesting and to be sorry when she stopped or went away.
她甚至开始觉得这很有趣，当她停下来或离开时，她会感到难过。
For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, yet had never begun it.
数年来，他总是想要画一张艺术作品，然而从未行动。
It was Monday morning, and the writing class had just begun.
那是星期一的早晨，写作课刚刚开始。
Maybe it was the sense of anxiety at having to trust the drivers coming up behind me after happy hour had begun.
也许是因为欢乐时光开始之后、我必须信任从后面开向我的司机不会乱来的那种焦虑。
Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over at four o 'clock, and Blucher would have fallen on the battle won by Napoleon.
假使战事早两个钟头开始，到四点便可以完毕，布吕歇尔赶来，也会是在拿破仑得胜之后。
It was nine days to Christmas when I arrived at Alex Egayu's house in Katine, North-East Uganda, on a sizzling hot Tuesday morning, but preparations for the big day had begun much earlier.
在一个炎热的星期四早晨，我来到了AlexEgayu位于Katine的家里，Katine在乌干达东北部。这天距离圣诞节还有9天，但是为这个大日子所做的准备工作早就开始了。
But it was not clear what test was used; only blood tests for antibodies would show whether pigs had the virus in February, when the human outbreak is thought to have begun.
但是还不太清楚的是什么检测被使用了；二月的时候，仅有关于抗体的血检验会显示猪是否携带病毒，当人类流感被认为在已经爆发时。
The Sunflower had not started where I saw the stalk begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the sun.
这株向日葵并不是从我看到的茎梗出开始生长，而实际上是从一块大石头下开始，从下面并绕过石头生长而伸向太阳。
It was on a bookshelf about forty miles away from where Crowley and Aziraphale were enjoying a rather good lunch and, metaphorically, it had just begun to tick.
它就放在一个书架上，距离正在享受美味午餐的克鲁利和亚茨拉菲尔大约四十英里的地方。它刚刚开始倒计时。
Dispossessed farmers and artisans, they had occupied the land, proclaimed it the "common treasure" of the people, and begun tilling it.
那些流离失所的农民和手工业者，宣布自己占据的土地为人民的“共有财产”，并且开始在其上耕作。
The Coast Guard said it had sent investigators to confirm whether crude oil had begun to wash up on parts of the Louisiana shoreline.
美海岸警卫队表示，他们已派出调查者验证原油是否已经开始触及路易斯安那州海岸线。
China had already begun to implement tightening measures when it raised interest rates and increased reserve requirements last month.
中国已经开始实施一些紧缩措施——上个月提高了利率，并且提高了存款准备金要求。
China had already begun to implement tightening measures when it raised interest rates and increased reserve requirements last month.
中国已经开始实施一些紧缩措施——上个月提高了利率，并且提高了存款准备金要求。
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