People usually say that a good beginning is half done, while spring is the beginning of a year.

人们都说好的开始时成功的一半，那么春天就是一年的开始。

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Health officials hope to begin dispensing anti-retroviral drugs on a wide scale at the beginning of next year.

卫生官员们希望在明年年初开始大规模配发抗逆转录病毒药物。

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We'll reach the sales targets in a month which we set at the beginning of the year.

我们将在一个月内达成年初制定的销售目标。

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The fifty year old international star was just days from beginning a series of performances in London.

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That's when a new manager appears subsequent to the beginning of the ten-year period; they'll put not only the new numbers in, but they'll take the history of the new manager and put that history into the database.

即在10年期开始后,每出现一位新的基金经理,不仅是新的业绩数字会进入数据库,新经理的历史记录,也会填入数据库

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January first. The beginning of a new year.

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It also marks the beginning of a year in the spotlight for African football, with South Africa set to become the continent's first country to host the FIFA World Cup in June.

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It was a major blow which could be the beginning of the end of a 40 year old guerilla movement known as The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

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Bizarrely, if a company falls below the target at the beginning of a plan year, it has to immediately start pouring in more money to get to 100%, instead of moving up in increments until 2011.

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