It always takes the class a while to settle down at the start of the lesson.

那个班一上课总得过一会儿才能安静下来。

《牛津词典》

I went over to start up a conversation, asking her who she knew at the party.

我走过去攀谈起来，问她在聚会上都认识谁。

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The offer was to start a new research laboratory at double the salary he was then getting.

提议当时是他创办一个新实验室拿双倍工资。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

It looked at the effects of a later start to the school day.

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So this, where we start at zero is not a node, is the first thing to point out.

零点不是节点，这是第一个要指出来的，当我们。

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Well, all of that might in fact be the goal but it's when you start hearing things like this hopefully that you at least start to grimace a little bit.

这是我们的目标,但实际上当你开始听到这样的事情,你可能开始愁闷苦脸了。

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Kathryn Minshew, who moved her careers site, the Daily Muse, to San Francisco from Brooklyn at the start of the year to join a prestigious incubator, says her six-person team plans to return in August.

WSJ: New York: Techie Magnet

But the prize for incompetence must go to Daryl Gates, the police chief, who disappeared at the start of the riots to attend a fund-raising event and never properly regained control.

ECONOMIST: Trouble in paradise

During her time off, she married and had a baby daughter, but 18 months after giving birth, she came blistering back to action at the start of August with a view to making her mark again at the U.S. Open.

CNN: Wickmayer moves into final four at U.S. Open