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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
-- I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health; useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene and common sense.
-- And as for those who, previously hearing of the White Whale, by chance caught sight of him; in the beginning of the thing they had every one of them, almost, as boldly and fearlessly lowered for him, as for any other whale of that species.
-- Now, the Pequod had sailed from Nantucket at the very beginning of the Season-on-the-Line.
-- Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern's famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning of the present century.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why," said the Professor hotly, "one would say you were already beginning to be afraid.
-- "You are beginning to see the charms of travel, Master Harry," cried my uncle.
-- said I, beginning to be alarmed.
-- I fancy, already, that the air is beginning to be close and condensed.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was al-ready beginning to slacken, with a slack sort of thinness, almost withered, going old before it had ever really lived.
-- 'Why there you are, your Ladyship!I was beginning to wonder if you'd gone lost!'
-- Standard Five girls were having a singing lesson, just finishing the la-me-doh-la exercises and beginning a 'sweet children's song'.
-- 'What would be the use of their striking again!Merely ruin the industry, what's left of it: and surely the owls are beginning to see it!'
-- and she quickly kissed the soft penis, that was beginning to stir again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere this was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life.'
-- The breakfast beginning by-and-by to languish, Mr Meagles made the company a speech.
-- 'Very much,' said Arthur, withdrawing his eyes from the delicate head beginning to droop and the pale face with a new solicitude stealing over it.
-- The walls were so near to one another, and the wild clouds hurried over them so fast, that it gave him a sensation like the beginning of sea-sickness to look up at the gusty sky.
-- How young she seemed to him, or how old he to her; or what a secret either to the other, in that beginning of the destined interweaving of their stories, matters not here.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day passed a a part of the next before any acknowledgement arrived, and she was beginning to fear she had offended her crochety friend.
-- My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one.
-- Make the shroud, and lay him in my box, and after the dinner party, we'll have a nice little funeral,' said Jo, beginning to feel as if she had undertaken a good deal.
-- 'You have only to wait, I am to do the work,' said John beginning his labors by picking up Meg's napkin, with an expression which caused Jo to shake her head, and then say to herself with an air of relief as the front door banged, 'Here comes Laurie.
-- asked her mother, beginning to look sober.
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