- 1
To commence is to begin or start something. It means the same as start, but it sounds much more formal. You see it on notices, in law, at ceremonies, and in careful writing: the hearing will commence at nine. In ordinary talk, people say start or begin; commence can sound stiff if you use it for small things, like commencing your breakfast. Though actually, American schools also use commencement for the graduation ceremony — the day one part of life begins, not only the day a speech begins.
開始（較正式、書面或儀式場合）
組成From Middle English commencen, from Anglo-Norman comencer, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre: Latin com- (“together / fully”) + initiō (“I begin”), the same family as initiate.
同家族的字
- initiatesame Latin initiō: to begin
- commencementcommence + -ment; also the US graduation ceremony
原始詞典資料5 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。
commenceverb/kəˈmɛns/
- 1
To begin, start.
- Here the anthem doth commence:
- His heaven commences ere the world be past!
- 2
To begin, start.
- The speeches commenced three days of workshops, seminars, and cultural activities.
- 3
To begin or start.
- At dawn we'll commence to drive.
- 4
To begin to be, or to act as.
- […] he furnish’d me with a Gun, Cartouch-box, and Powder-horn, &c. and thus accouter’d I commenc’d Soldier.
- When we are wearied of the trouble of prosecuting crimes at the bar, we commence judges ourselves […]
- 5
datedTo take a degree at a university.
- […] I question whether the Formality of Commencing was used in that Age: inclining rather to the negative, that such Distinction of Graduates was then unknown […]
- […] was admitted a minor fellow of his college 4 Oct. 1591, a major fellow 11 March 1591-2, and commenced M.A. in 1592.
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。