让我们开端上课。

Let's start our class.

youdao

尽管当时我们并不知道，但这件事是后来一系列事件的开端。

Although we didn't know it, this incident was a taste of things to come.

《牛津词典》

我们仍处于这场革命的开端，现在的一些小小选择可能会在今后产生巨大的影响。

We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later.

youdao

Well, we begin our story with the emergence of the Bronze Age in the Aegean Sea area.

好吧,让我们从爱琴海地区,青铜时代的开端讲起

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选