beginning是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 开始， 开端； 起源， 早期阶段，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had arrived in England at the beginning of October, and it was now February.
-- The moon had reached her sum-mit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was impossible to feel anything but palpitating joy in this warm sun, in this spring, with the chimneys ofTwelve Oaks just beginning to show on the hill across the river.
-- "And high time they stopped it, for it's beginning to show.
-- Evidently, she was not the only one to whom this idea occurred, for several of the boys were beginning to stickout their chins.
-- Afternoonnaps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in themorning and culminating in a ball.
-- Through the mad tearing of ideasround and round in her brain, one was beginning to take form.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- But beginning to perceive that the handcuffs were not for me, and that the military had so far got the better of the pie as to put it in the background, I collected a little more of my scattered wits.
-- He must have had a tiresome journey of it, for Mr. Wopsle, being knocked up, was in such a very bad temper that if the Church had been thrown open, he would probably have excommunicated the whole expedition, beginning with Joe and myself.
-- I was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she checked me with her former impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand.
-- ("This is the way to have him!We are beginning to hold our own, I think, Mum?")
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
-- But the old king begged so hard, that she had no peace till she had told him all the tale, from beginning to end, word for word.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable's length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and im-mediately split.
-- We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the begin-ning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing 97so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
-- He argued, 'that the very laws of nature absolutely required we should have been made, in the beginning of a size more large and robust; not so liable to destruction from every lit-tle accident, of a tile falling from a house, or a stone cast from the hand of a boy, or being drowned in a little brook.'
-- I had now been two years in this country; and about the beginning of the third, Glumdalclitch and I attended the king and queen, in a progress to the south coast of the king-dom.
-- He said 'that about twelve o'clock at noon, as he was looking through his glass, he spied it at a distance, and thought it was a sail, which he had a mind to make, be-ing not much out of his course, in hopes of buying some biscuit, his own beginning to fall short.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, the boys and girls sat on the face of the inclined plane in two compact bodies, divided up the centre by a narrow interval; and Sissy, being at the corner of a row on the sunny side, came in for the beginning of a sunbeam, of which Bitzer, being at the corner of a row on the other side, a few rows in advance, caught the end.
-- So strange to have lived to his time of life, and yet to be beginning like a boy this summer morning!With these musings in his mind, and his bundle under his arm, Stephen took his attentive face along the high road.
-- They strolled away, among the lanes beginning to be indistinct in the twilight she leaning on his arm and she little thought how she was going down, down, down, Mrs. Sparsit's staircase.
-- It was only rain, beginning to fall fast, in heavy drops.
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