After a few moments' consideration, he began to speak.

他想了片刻后开始讲话。

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After walking onto the stage, she began to speak, "I know you have been laughing behind my back for years. Today I have a great chance to make you all laugh in front of me. That's why I am here."

走上舞台后，她开口说：“我知道你们在背后嘲笑我好多年了。今天我有一个很好的机会让你们在我面前笑。这就是我在这里的原因。”

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Mr. Sesemann began to speak of their journey and how sorry he was to give it up.

赛赛曼先生开始讲述他们的旅程，以及他对放弃这段旅程感到多么遗憾。

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In eighteen ninety-six, Jack London began to speak about and support socialism.

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So medieval commentators for example began to speak a little bit more openly about some of these features.

所以，中世纪的注释者渐渐开始,提及这些特点。

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People began to speak of him as a presidential candidate.

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Equity markets were marginally negative as the Fed Chairman began to speak, and then fell hard.

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As she began to speak, her hands seemed to become lighter, harder to control, so she had to put her drink down on a bookcase.

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Ackman began to speak around noon, countering claims made by Icahn a day before on a radio show that hit at his recent Herbalife short.

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