1.begin(开始)的过去式
1.to start doing something; to start feeling or thinking something; to make an activity or process start or exist; to give your attention to something for the first time
2.to start happening or existing; if a sentence, book, etc. begins with a particular letter, word, etc., that is the first one in it; if a place begins somewhere, that is the first point where you consider it to be; if an activity or process begins with something, that is the first thing that happens in it; to start speaking
1.He allowed them to pay him back over the next year as their businesses began to produce more stable profits.
他让他们等第二年生意开始有稳定的利润后再还钱。
2.My good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail.
两年以后贝茨恩师不幸逝世，我没有什么朋友，所以生意渐渐萧条。
3.My life began when I found you and I thought it had ended when I fail to save you.
我的生命，因邂逅你而开始，因无法挽留你而终结。
4.He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
于是带着彼得，和西庇太的两个儿子同去，就忧愁起来，极其难过。
5.Before Congress began its debate, the president discovered a cancer in his mouth. The cancer needed to be removed immediately.
就在国会展开辩论之前，克利夫兰总统发现他患有口腔癌，必须立即动手术。
6.And he began to wonder if he was seeing something virtually unheard of: forged fingerprints.
他开始怀疑自己是否看到了几乎闻所未闻的东西：伪造指纹。
7.And when he had spent all, a severe famine occurred throughout that country, and he began to be in want.
既耗尽了一切，又遇著那地方大遭饥荒，就穷乏起来。
8.I never spoke to Henry about what I had done- I was too ashamed- and gradually the memory of that dark period of my life began to fade away.
这件事令我太羞愧了，所以也没有告诉亨利我的所作所为。而关于那黑色日子的记忆逐渐在我的记忆中隐去。
9.Later on, this was discovered and made public, so people began to follow suit and the boom of making artificial cultivated land started.
后来这件事被人们发现，并且传播开来，大家纷纷仿效，开始了人造耕地热潮。
10.And so, I began to think about, well, maybe that's just a random sample.
因此，我开始想，也许这只是个特例。