1.(从头起; 着手进行) begin; start; initiate; commence: 开始生效 take effect; come into effect; 从头开始 start from the very beginning; 开始流行 come into vogue; 开始营业 commence business; 开始收集邮票 set about stamp-collecting; 一切都得重新开始。 Everything had to be begun over again. 从一开始他就坚决反对这项计划。 He set his face against the scheme from the first.2.(开始阶段) initial stage; beginning; outset; inception; initiation; onset; dawning: 二十世纪开始时 at the commencement of the twentieth century; 战争开始后不久 soon after the start of the war; 开始他不同意, 但后来同意了。 At first he didn't agree, but later he did.
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