beginning
英[bɪ'gɪnɪŋ]
美[bɪ'ɡɪnɪŋ]
- n. 开始；起点
- v. 开始；创建（begin的ing形式）
英英释意
- 1. the event consisting of the start of something;
- "the beginning of the war"
- 2. the time at which something is supposed to begin;
- "they got an early start"
- "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
- 3. the first part or section of something;
- "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
- 4. the place where something begins, where it springs into being;
- "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
- "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
- "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
- "communism's Russian root"
- 5. the act of starting something;
- "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"