Start-min refers to the begin date in the range, and start-max refers to the end of the range.

start - min是指范围的开始日期，start - max是指范围的结束日期。

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After that, food shipments to the port could begin in a matter of weeks.

之后，到该港口的食物运送可能在几周之内开始。

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The primroses should begin to seed themselves down the steep hillside.

报春花应该开始沿那个陡峭的山坡一路撒播种子了。

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The president set a time limit of twenty fifteen for the design to be completed, after which building would begin.

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I'm going to begin at the bottom of 73: If you have your book, go ahead and open it up.

我将从73页最下面开始读：,如果你带了书，那么就打开书翻到那页。

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You begin to hear, or perhaps smell, the slight whiff of jargon that pervades theoretical writing. It often does so for a reason.

你开始听出，或者嗅出遍布理论文章中的术语的味道,这往往是有道理的。

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First responders and volunteers rushed to the scene to begin the treacherous work of searching for survivors.

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Gazprom is due to be the first company to begin commercial oil production in the offshore Arctic, with drilling to begin next year.

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His concern has been focused on individual Americans and the risk to them, to their lives and their property, and then on the need to begin the process of recovery.

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