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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Wait a little, dear Helena, wait; we must have patience with bottles; but if I am not much mistaken, this one will answer all our questions," replied her husband, beginning to scrape away the hard substances round the neck.
-- repeated John Mangles, beginning to suspect how the matter stood.
-- He was beginning to explain the case in a categorical manner, when Lord Glenarvan and his party came up on the poop.
-- Soon large ponds, some just beginning to form, and some already deep, lay across the route to the east.
-- "I say it is beginning in good earnest, and if it goes on so we shall have a terrible storm."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His plan of campaign was beginning to be evident.
-- 'The whole course of events,' said Holmes, 'from the point of view of the man who called himself Stapleton was simple and direct, although to us, who had no means in the beginning of knowing the motives of his actions and could only learn part of the facts, it all appeared exceeding-ly complex.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You begin by promising that there are to be no reproaches or in-sinuations or questions, and here you are beginning them at once.
-- He was beginning to put his own interpretation on the af-fair.
-- IT was the beginning of June, and for a whole week the weather in St. Petersburg had been magnificent.
-- Now, would you believe it, excellency, every morning he recites this speech to us from beginning to end, exactly as he spoke it before the magistrate.
-- He was beginning to have a passionate faith in the Russian soul, however, and what discoveries he had made in the last six months, what unexpected discov-eries!But every soul is a mystery, and depths of mystery lie in the soul of a Russian.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold-bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was beginning to weary.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found plenty strawberries, ripe and prime; and green summer grapes, and green razber-ries; and the green blackberries was just beginning to show.
-- When it was beginning to come on dark we poked our heads out of the cottonwood thicket, and looked up and down and across; nothing in sight; so Jim took up some of the top planks of the raft and built a snug wigwam to get under in blazing weather and rainy, and to keep the things dry.
-- When we was three or four hundred yards down- stream we see the lantern show like a little spark at the texas door for a second, and we knowed by that that the rascals had missed their boat, and was beginning to understand that they was in just as much trouble now as Jim Turner was.
-- By the time I got there the sky was beginning to get a little gray in the east; so we struck for an island, and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people.
-- Towards night it begun to darken up and look like rain; the heat lightning was squirting around low down in the sky, and the leaves was beginning to shiver it was going to be pretty ugly, it was easy to see that.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Pinocchio, who was beginning to lose patience.
-- "When the dead weep, they are beginning to recover," said the Crow solemnly.
-- "I don't know what you are talking about," said the Marionette, who was beginning to tremble with fear.
-- asked Pinocchio, who was beginning to tremble with fr ight.
-- Pinocchio answered with another blow, and that was the signal for the beginning of the fray.
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