核心畫面
You can picture beginning as the very first edge of something that runs along a line in time — the spot where a story, an event, or a stretch of time first opens. Stand at that edge and everything else still lies ahead of you.
可以想成一條沿著時間延伸的線，beginning 就是這條線最前面的那一端——故事、事件、或一段時間剛剛掀開的那一刻…更多收起
可以想成一條沿著時間延伸的線，beginning 就是這條線最前面的那一端——故事、事件、或一段時間剛剛掀開的那一刻。站在那個起點上，後面的一切都還沒發生，都還在前方等著。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
beginningnoun詞源 1/bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/
- 1
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- 2
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- 3
That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- What was the beginning of the dispute?
- 4
The initial portion of some extended thing.
- The author describes the main character’s youth at the beginning of the story.
- That house is at the beginning of the street.
beginningadj詞源 2/bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/
- 1
informalBeing the first portion of some extended thing.
- in the beginning paragraph of the chapter
- in the beginning section of the course
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。