Life begins like a nascent river flowing eastward, having emerged from ice and snow somewhere up high.

生命像向东流的一江春水，他从最高处发源，冰雪是他的前身。

youdao

What begins like a narrow mountain stream gradually opens up into a wide seagoing estuary, criss-crossed by multiple tributaries, and then bursts into an out-of-control, surging flood tide.

人群如山间细流一般，慢慢汇聚，奔腾向东，流入大海。 中途不断有纵横交错的支流涌入，最后迸发出无可阻挡的人潮人海。

youdao

He fails miserably at parties and begins screaming like a child when he realizes he has been told a white lie.

他在聚会上表现得非常失败，当他认识到别人对自己撒了个善意的谎言后，他就开始像个小孩似地尖叫。

youdao

Sometimes the fight is over before it begins - like when a bull runs away from his opponent, dragging his owner behind him.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Like the moon, Satan may look beautiful, but upon a closer scrutiny that beauty begins to yield certain metaphysical flaws.

像月亮那样，撒旦看起来非常美好，但是近看,就会发现这份美丽开始显露出一些抽象的瑕疵。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Director King Hu's "Come Drink With Me" (1966), which any genre snob will tell you is a seminal masterpiece, begins like a familiar Western.

WSJ: Hollywood's New Kick: Why Everybody Is Kung Fu Fighting

Two defeats of two major bills within three years -- that begins to look like a message.

CNN: What's the value of immigration?

Add the all-important price of oil to the equation and it begins to look like a time bomb.

FORBES: Global Food Prices Hit All-Time High As Violence Erupts In Yemen