However, this story begins as the Bigtrees are in decline.

然而，本故事开始的时候，大树家族已经趋向没落了。

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The series begins simply enough as a detective story when a career woman named Tsukiko is the victim of an attack by a bat-wielding schoolboy on inline skates.

这部连续剧一开始仅仅就像是个侦探故事，受害人是一个叫月子的职业女性，遭到了一个滑着旱冰而且持有球棒的小男生的袭击。

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Our story begins a few months before this post, as our protagonist (me) has just decided to lay the foundation of a copywriting company with a few of his business partners.

我们的故事开始于发表此文的前几个月，当我们的主角(也就是我)刚决定和他的几个商业伙伴建立一个文案公司。

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The story begins, as scientific discoveries often do, randomly.

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Ben Gazzara stars as Cosmo Vitelli, the owner and impresario of a strip joint, who, as the story begins, has just got out from under the burden of a debt to a loan shark when he gambles himself into a hole again.

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As the title suggests, "Batman Begins" revisits the story as if it had never been visited before -- not by generations of comic-book fans, TV viewers or filmgoers.

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