在这次比赛中获胜是她未来事业发展的良好开端。

Winning the competition was the opening she needed for her career.

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尽管当时我们并不知道，但这件事是后来一系列事件的开端。

Although we didn't know it, this incident was a taste of things to come.

《牛津词典》

但是，不管其确切的日期是在15000年、20000年还是30000年前，肖韦洞窟都属于艺术的开端。

But be that as it may, whatever the exact date, whether it's 15,000, 20,000 or 30,000 years ago, the Chauvet paintings are from the dawn of art.

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And if this myth of origins were the fabrication of a later writer, then surely they would have written the story in such a way as to give their ancestors a less tenuous hold or claim, connection, to the land.

如果这个神话的开端是后世作者伪造的，那他们当然会像这样在故事中赋予其祖先较强的控制力,或者说所有权，建立其与这片土地较为紧密的联系。

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All right so now here's the start of my program.

好的，现在这里是我的程序的开端。

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