began

No sooner had we left the village than it began to rain.

我们刚离开村子，天就下起雨来了。

When did you begin learning English?

你何时开始学习英语的？

Mary began to unload her trouble onto her mother.

玛丽开始把她的烦恼告诉她的母亲。

He left when the band began to beat out pop music.

乐队一奏起流行音乐他就走了。

The eggs began to decompose after a day in the sun.

鸡蛋在太阳下放了一天后开始变坏。

The Ching court began to feel its rule threatened.

清廷开始感到自己的统治受到了威胁。

The stricken tanker began to break up on the rocks.

油轮被击中后撞上礁石,毁了。

Suddenly he began to shriek loudly.

突然他开始大声尖叫起来。

He began his career as an apprentice.

他以当学徒开始他的职业生涯。

The audience began to troop away.

听众开始成群结队地离去。

He laid big stones at his house and began to build a pigsty.

他把大石块堆在房子前开始垒猪圈。

He began by pouring ridicule on the whig leader.

他先狠狠地讽刺了保守党的领导人。

He seized a club and began to lay on for dear life.

他抓起一根棍子，拼命地乱打起来。

The movie began as soon as we got there.

我们一到那儿电影就开始了。

Stammering began to grow on him.

他的口吃越来越厉害了。

His ceaseless chatter began to annoy me.

他不停的唠叨使我厌烦起来。

The police began to slap down political opposition.

警察开始压制政治上的反对势力。

The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.

牛吃完草后开始反刍。

The dog began to sicken and soon died.

这只狗开始生病并且很快就死了。

People in Britain began to crusade for social welfare.

英国国内开始争取社会福利的运动。

Now I begin to see light on their good intentions.

现在我对他们的良好动机开始有所领会了。

I began to think back to my childhood.

我开始回想起我的童年。

The battle began in dead earnest.

战斗实际上已开始。

Interest in the book began to drop off.

人们对这本书的兴趣开始减退了。

The boy began crying all of a sudden.

那男孩忽然哭了起来。

The infantry began to deploy at dawn.

步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。

After a few drinks he began to open up a bit.

他喝了几杯酒话就多起来了。

The child's face puckered up and he began to cry.

那孩子脸一皱哭了起来。

The gardeners flexed their muscles and began to dig.

园丁们舒腰展臂后才开始挖地。

Before long this arrangement began to pay big dividends.

不久，这项安排就开始带来很大的好处。

He put some lather on his chin, and then began to shave.

他在下巴上涂了些肥皂泡沫，然后开始刮脸。

Bob began to go into the details of the question.

鲍勃开始深入调查这问题的细节。

I had no sooner gone out than it began to rain.

我刚走到外面就开始下雨了。

I find his book begin to pall on me after a while.

我发觉他的书读过一阵子就开始对我失去吸引力。

Someone in the audience began to laugh.

观众中有人开始笑起来。

Soon they began to fight among themselves.

不久他们内部就斗争起来了。

A plan began to form in his head.

一项计划在他脑子中形成。

Production has stopped still since the war began.

从战争爆发以来，生产就停止不前。

He began to look for another position immediately.

他马上开始寻找另一个职位。

He cracked his whip and the horses began to trot.

他噼噼啪啪地挥鞭策马狂跑。

He left home just as last spring began.

他离家出走刚好是去年春天开始的时候。

She began to weary of her companions.

她逐渐对同伴心怀不满。

He soon began to find it heavy going.

他不久就发现进行很吃力了。

At the age of thirty, Mary began to lose colour.

玛丽在30岁的年纪就红颜渐逝了。

He was silent for a moment, then began his answer.

他沉默了一会儿，然后开始回答。

The auditor began the examination of accounts.

稽核员开始审察帐务。

After several pumps, the water began to flow.

用泵抽了几下之后,水流出来了。

After she died he began to hit the bottle.

她死之後，他开始酗酒。

The clock began to boom out twelve.

时钟开始敲十二点。

We began to pant before we reached the top of hill.

我们在到达山顶之前已经在喘气了。