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begin
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🇺🇸 /bɪɡˈɪn/
表示“开始、起始”：可以指开始做某事，也可以指某事物从无到有地出现；作名词时只见于非标准或诗性用法，表示“开端”。
💡 记忆钩子
把 begin 想成一扇刚刚推开的门：人跨过门槛，是“开始做某事”；一件事从门后出现，是“开始存在”。因此它的核心都是从起点迈出第一步。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握动词的“开始做某事”义，再理解“开始存在”义；名词用法属于边缘用法，阅读时能认出即可。
- 不要把 begin 只理解成“进行中”，它强调的是从起点启动；也不要把它和表示结束的词混淆。
📖 中文释义
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rare 开端；起点📖 它把 begin 当作名词，指一件事的开端或起点；这是非标准用法，不是学习者日常表达的重点。💡 常见于诗歌或刻意特殊的表达中，通常作名词短语的一部分。现代英语里不要因为动词 begin 很常见，就直接把它当作普通名词使用；表达“开端”时应改用更常规的名词。nonstandard
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core 开始做；启动📖 表示从某个时刻起开始做一件事，或启动一项活动。它对应记忆中的“推开门，迈出第一步”。💡 常见结构是 begin to do something 或 begin doing something；两种结构都可表示“开始做某事”。begin 后接具体活动时，学习者不要漏掉动词形式，也不要把过去式 began 和过去分词 begun 混淆。ergativeShe began learning Spanish after moving to Madrid.她搬到马德里后开始学习西班牙语。The meeting began at nine.会议九点开始。
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core 开始存在；产生📖 表示某事物从无到有、进入存在状态，强调它的起点。它仍然是同一幅“门后出现新事物”的画面，只是开始的对象不是人的行动，而是事物本身。💡 常见结构是某事 begin，或用 begin with/from 指明起点。这个意思常用于描述历史、过程、生命或其他事物的起源；不要把它误解成“已经发展起来”或“已经完成”。intransitiveThe story begins with a child finding an old key.这个故事从一个孩子找到一把旧钥匙开始。
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📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 11 组
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; ; ; ; ;
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get down
begin
get
start out
start
set about
set out
commence
We began working at dawn
Who will start?
Get working as soon as the sun rises!
The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
He began early in the day
Let's get down to work now
反义: end, terminate
下位: attack, embark, enter, fall, launch, plunge
set in motion, cause to start; ;
同义词集:
begin
lead off
start
commence
The U.S. started a war in the Middle East
The Iraqis began hostilities
begin a new chapter in your life
反义: end, terminate
下位: commence, embark on, inaugurate, introduce, jump-start, jumpstart, start, start up, usher in
begin to speak or say
同义词集:
begin
`Now listen, friends', he began
上位: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language;
同义词集:
begin
She began Russian at an early age
We started French in fourth grade
achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative;
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This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation
You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war
上位: accomplish, achieve, attain, reach
begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; ;
同义词集:
begin
start
begin a cigar
She started the soup while it was still hot
We started physics in 10th grade
上位: act, move
have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; ;
同义词集:
begin
start
The DMZ begins right over the hill
The second movement begins after the Allegro
Prices for these homes start at $250,000
反义: cease, end, finish, stop, terminate
下位: break out, bud, dawn, erupt, originate
have a beginning characterized in some specified way; ; ;
同义词集:
begin
start
The novel begins with a murder
My property begins with the three maple trees
Her day begins with a workout
The semester begins with a convocation ceremony
上位: be
have a beginning, of a temporal event;
同义词集:
begin
WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland
The company's Asia tour begins next month
上位: be
be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; ;
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begin
The number `one' begins the sequence
A terrible murder begins the novel
The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester
Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)
同义词集:
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menachem begin
🌳 词源
源自古英语 beginnan，意为“开始”；其更早形式可追溯到原始日耳曼语。
From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.
🔄 变式
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