Ruby uses a slightly different approach than many other languages to match the end and the beginning of a string.

Ruby用一种和其他语言略有不同的做法去匹配字符串的开始和结束。

youdao

Make sure you have quotation marks at both the beginning and the end of quotes.

务必在引文的开始和结尾处加上引号。

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In fact, some of these playwrights would start by writing the end of a play and work backward toward the beginning, just to make sure each event led logically from what had gone before.

事实上，一些剧作家会从剧本的结尾开始写起，然后倒着写剧本的开头，只是为了确保每一个事件都能从逻辑上与之前发生的事情联系起来。

youdao

"and that was the beginning of the end.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The relationship between the beginning and the end that I have been intimating, in other words, is a relation of death.

我之前一直在提示的,开始和结束的关系，还句话说，是死亡的关系。

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The sum starts at the beginning of the first and ends at the end of the second.

和矢量就是从第一个矢量的起点,指向第二个矢量的终点

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The destruction of cultural property in the course of the conflicts that took place at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, highlighted the necessity for a number of improvements to be addressed in the implementation of the Hague Convention.

UNESCO: CYPRUS NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO - Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

We have come a long way since the notion of heroism that prevailed at the tail end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | What makes a modern hero?

Well, luckily for us, we have a pretty good test case: the Orange Revolution in Ukraine that took place at the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005.

FORBES: Lessons for Russia from the Orange Revolution