It started to hail, huge great stones.

天空开始下冰雹，巨大的雹子。

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It started to rain.

开始下雨了。

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As the plane climbed to 370 feet, it started yawing.

飞机攀升到370英尺高时开始偏航。

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One belief is that it started when an English stableman committed suicide by hanging himself while standing on a pail,or bucket.

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And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.

而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。

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It's a curious sport in that... well, it started (when) surfers went to surf on land.

这是一项很有趣的运动，因为……嗯，它是从冲浪选手上陆地冲浪开始的。

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About 500m in, it started to narrow, forcing us into single file as it scythed upwards.

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Building work for the plant, near Leiston, began in 1988 and it started operating seven years later.

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It started out as an offer to help find a place for an event.

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