我开始在一个录音棚里工作。

I started working in a recording studio.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我开始在公园里慢跑，后来逐渐增加到一天跑五英里。

I began by jogging in the park and worked up to running five miles a day.

《牛津词典》

我以询问在美国有多少日托中心开始。

I started by asking how many day-care centres were located in the United States.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I hadn't set out with a plan that I wanted to teach at some of the best universities in the country.

一开始，我并没有给自己制定目标,一定要在这些最好的大学执教。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So I moved around at a couple of law firms. I started at a law firm in the South.

所以我跑了一些律师事务所。我开始在一家南方的律师事务所做事。

选康内尔大学的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选