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。
Chapter three is the end of the beginning of the book. Stop there and read the critic's comments.
第三章是本书开头部分的结尾。请在此处停下，看看评论家的评论。
As I mentioned in an earlier post on the Deal Professor, Mr. Madoff's guilty plea signaled the end of the beginning.
就像我在前文中提到的，麦道夫的认罪标志着此案第一阶段的结束。
"To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning; to a man it's the beginning of the end." -helen Rowland.
对女人来说，第一吻只是开始的结束了；对于男人来说，则是结束的又开始了。——海伦·罗兰。
Still, says their commander, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, “in the sweep of the campaign, this marks the end of the beginning.”
不过，驻地指挥官陆军准将马克•卡尔顿•史密斯却表示，“在此次‘地毯式’行动中，这标志着开始的结局”。
Dead mussel can be seen everywhere, a number of libraries at the end of the beginning of deserts and old have been locked in a large fishing vessels into the yellow sand.
枯死的河蚌随处可见，一些库底开始沙化，昔日的鱼船已锁在大片的黄沙之中。
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。
Mean time to failure is the average continuously operational period — i.e. the average period between the end of one failure and the beginning of the next.
平均失效到达时间是连续运行期间的平均值——也就是说，在结束一个失效和开始另外一个之间的平均周期。
The begin and end attributes denote the beginning and end of the matching term by means of number of characters.
开始和结束属性表示按照字符数匹配的术语的开始和结束部分。
The open and close brackets ([and]) mark the beginning and end of the code block, respectively.
开方括号和闭方括号([和])分别标志代码块的开始和结束。
The researchers took blood samples and muscle biopsies at the beginning and end of the experiment.
研究人员在实验前后分别采样了参与者的血液和肌肉活组织。
Make sure you thank them all with a big slide of sponsor logos at the beginning and end of the conference.
确保在会议开始和结束时都用一张大的幻灯片来鸣谢你的赞助商。
Snow reflects the color of the sky and, at the beginning or end of the day, often appears purple in color.
无论是在日出还是日落时分，积雪因为反射了天空的颜色，拍出来总是偏紫。
It didn't last beyond the end of the exams and the beginning of the Christmas holiday. She got involved with another (much older) man whom she later married.
我们的关系没有持续到考试结束也就是圣诞假期开始，她遇到了另外一个男人(比我大)，也就是后来和她结婚的男人。
Even more than the Japanese victories in the second world war, it announced the end of white supremacy over the continent and the beginning of the rise of the East.
甚至超过第二次世界大战打败日本人，奠边府宣告白人对亚洲大陆霸权统治的结束，东方崛起的开始。
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。
You aren't as tall at the end of the day as you are at the beginning.
一天的结束和一天的开始的时候，你的高度是不一样的。
The paradox was that the intelligentsia’s triumph—which led to the collapse of the Soviet empire—was also the beginning of its end.
讽刺的是，苏联知识分子的荣耀之日——此后它导致了苏联的瓦解——也是他们的终结之时。
The paradox was that the intelligentsia’s triumph-which led to the collapse of the Soviet empire-was also the beginning of its end.
讽刺的是，苏联知识分子的荣耀之日–此后它导致了苏联的瓦解–也是他们的终结之时。
The paradox was that the intelligentsia’s triumph-which led to the collapse of the Soviet empire-was also the beginning of its end.
讽刺的是，苏联知识分子的荣耀之日–此后它导致了苏联的瓦解–也是他们的终结之时。
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