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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He it was that made the ships for Alexan-drus, which were the beginning of all mischief, and brought evil alike both on the Trojans and on Alexandrus himself; for he heeded not the decrees of heaven.
-- The sun was beginning to beat upon the fields, fresh ris-en into the vault of heaven from the slow still currents of deep Oceanus, when the two armies met.
-- Idomeneus drew his spear out of the body, but could not strip him of the rest of his armour for the rain of darts that were showered upon him: more-over his strength was now beginning to fail him so that he could no longer charge, and could neither spring forward to recover his own weapon nor swerve aside to avoid one that was aimed at him; therefore, though he still defend-ed himself in hand-to-hand fight, his heavy feet could not bear him swiftly out of the battle.
-- 'In the beginning Dardanus was the son of Jove, and founded Dardania, for Ilius was not yet stablished on the plain for men to dwell in, and her people still abode on the spurs of many-fountained Ida.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLES So it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village.
-- "So be it," said Mrs. Hall, taking up the table-cloth and beginning to spread it over the table.
-- "Wait till the summer," said Mrs. Hall sagely, "when the artisks are beginning to come.
-- I was beginning to feel frightened.
-- By the afternoon even those who believed in the Unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in a tentative fashion, on the supposition that he had quite gone away, and with the sceptics he was already a jest.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You were just beginning to tell me.'
-- And forthwith, beginning in the tone of a man supreme-ly bored, but presently warming a little, he explained his work to me.
-- A dreadful thing that I was only beginning to realise was, that over all this island there was now no safe place where I could be alone and secure to rest or sleep.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.
-- The dawn was beginning to break when Mowgli went down the hillside alone, to meet those mysterious things that are called men.
-- The men ought to skin two hundred to-day, but it's the beginning of the season and they are new to the work.
-- There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious fac-es, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger's claws on his side.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rays of the sun were beginning to grow less fierce, and the intense heat of the day was less-ened, as the cooler vapors of the springs and fountains rose above their leafy beds, and rested in the atmosphere.
-- He is over young, too, to hold such rank, and to be put above men whose heads are beginning to bleach; and yet they say he is a soldier in his knowledge, and a gallant gentleman!'
-- 'The holy charm is beginning to be felt, and soon shalt thou see this horrid tumult stilled.'
-- Imbibing renewed confidence from the security of these experienced foresters, Heyward soon imitated their exam-ple; and long before the night had turned, they who lay in the bosom of the ruined work, seemed to slumber as heav-ily as the unconscious multitude whose bones were already beginning to bleach on the surrounding plain.
-- 'We must get down to it, Sagamore, beginning at the spring, and going over the ground by inches.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think he was beginning to doubt it."
-- I suspected that Blanche Stroeve's violent dislike of Strickland had in it from the beginning a vague element of sexual attraction.
-- I was beginning to be bored with a tragedy that did not really concern me, and pretending to myself that I spoke in order to distract Stroeve, I turned with relief to other subjects.
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