The wedding marked the beginning of a new phase in Emma's life.

婚礼标志着埃玛生活新阶段的开始。

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The birth of their first child marked the beginning of a new era in their married life.

第一个孩子的出世使他们的婚姻生活开始了一个新阶段。

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The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to the beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life.

古埃及人把太阳升起比作生命的开始，太阳落下比作生命的结束。

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The early nineteen twenties marked the beginning of Zora Neale Hurston's life as a writer.

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One sort of opens up the beginning of life here and the other closes it down through a referencing of death.

前者讲的是生命的开始,后者通过诠释死亡,讲述了生命的终结

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Very often in these creations stories there is some sense of some realm from which life begins to emerge usually beginning with gods.

通常在这些创作的故事里，都会说到,神是人类的最先。

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One is that all human life beginning from fertilization is sacred.

NPR: Slate's Human Nature: Leave No Embryo Behind

Its members are collecting signatures for a petition to change the law so it defines life as beginning at the moment of conception.

BBC: South Carolina: Up close and in personhood

In addition, North Dakota's Republican-dominated legislature last week set up a voter referendum for November 2014 which seeks to amend the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception.

BBC: North Dakota introduces toughest abortion law in US