【begin音标】 英[bɪˈgɪn] 美[bɪˈgɪn]
【单词释义】 begin是什么意思：
vt.& vi.开始；启动；着手；创始；创办
vi.（从…）开始；起始；起初是；开始讲话
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] begins
[单词现在分词] beginning
[单词过去式] began
[单词过去分词] begun
[反义词] end v. 结束
【关联词/派生词】
beginning n.开始，开端 v.开始(begin的现在分词)
beginner n.新手，初学者；创立人
【begin形近词/近似词】
origin n.起源，根源；出身
virgin n.处女，童男；无经验的人，新手 adj.原始状态的，未开发的；纯洁的；处女的
login n.[U] 注册，登录
margin n.边缘，范围；页边空白；利润，盈余 vt.留边；成为…的边
【常用短语】
begin with 以…开始；开始于…
to begin with 刚开始；首先
【近义词解析】
◇ 开始
begin (v. 开始)：最常用词，指为某一过程或进程开个头，常可与 start 换用。
start (v. 开始)：指动作开始且持续下去，强调开始这一事实。
commence ([六级/考研]v.开始，着手)：指开始某种正式行动，常伴有正式程序或一定的仪式，语气庄重。
【单词例句】
◇ The race began. The lion ran like a bottle of arrows, tiger rushed up is not far behind. Don't have much time, the lion has been far behind the tiger. "Ha, ha, ha, I won!" Lion face proud as a peacock, tiger than again next year.
比赛开始了。狮子跑得像离弦的箭，老虎也不甘落后地冲了上去。没多少时间，狮子已远远地把老虎落在了后面。“哈哈哈，我赢了！”狮子脸上洋洋自得，老虎提出明年再比。
---- The Tiger And Lion
◇ Suddenly, a tiny voice, "I go to!" You see, it is little rabbit. In the beginning, the meeting is still very quiet, after a while, erupted out of the rolling thunder laughter.
突然，一个细小的声音传了出来，“我去！”大家一看，原来是小兔子。一开始，会场还很安静，过了一会儿，全场爆发出了滚雷般的笑声。
---- The Big Tiger and Little Rabbit
◇ But then one day, the sky suddenly began to rain heavily, the male peacock is less than a result of escape, but wet a beautiful tail feathers, which makes it a good sad.
可是有一天，天上突然下起了大雨，雄孔雀因 躲避不及，而淋湿了漂亮的尾羽，这使它好痛心呀。
---- The Peacock
◇ "Now," said the king, "whoever has the best wife will inherit the kingdom Here begin the tests" He gave them each some hemp to be spun and returned within three days, to see which betrothed was the best spinner.
国王说：“这样吧，谁的妻子最优秀，谁就能继承王位。现在我们就试试她们。”他给每个儿子分了一些麻，让他们的未婚妻在三天内纺出来，比比谁纺得更好。
---- The Prince Who Married a Frog
◇ Then the old mother began to weep, saying, "You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to put two innocent souls to death,"
他年迈的妈妈哭着对他说：“你这个坏傢伙，为甚么写信要我杀那两个无辜的人？”
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ But when he began to walk and to move about, the stones in his stomach knocked against each other and rattled.
可它刚一迈脚，肚子里的石头便互相碰撞，发出哗啦哗啦的响声。
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ In the 1850's Samuel M. Kier, a manufacturer in western Pennsylvania, began collecting the oil from local seepages and refining it into kerosene.
在十九世纪五十年代，萨缪尔M科尔，宾西法尼亚西部的一位制造商，开始从当地的溢出物中收集石油并将它炼成煤油。
---- Oil Refining
◇ By the mid-nineteenth century, the term"icebox"had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States.
直到19世纪中期，"冰箱"这个名词才进入了美国语言，但冰仅仅只是开始影响美国普通市民的饮食。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for, as we all have observed, the beasts play.
体育运动开始于何时?如果体育运动的本质就是游戏的话，我们就可以宣称体育运动比人类古老，因为正如我们所观察到的，野兽也进行嬉戏。
---- The Origin of Sports
◇ Past perception wasn't all bad. The union between marriage and the now-standard ring placement can be traced back to second-century Egyptians who falsely believed that "a certain most delicate nerve" began in the fourth left finger and stretched directly to the heart, according to the Greek scholar Appian.
古人也不全都认为左手不好。婚姻和左手无名指的关联可以追溯到2世纪的埃及。希腊学者阿皮安解释说，当时埃及人误以为“某个最脆弱的神经”从左手第四指开始，一直延伸到心脏。