| 词汇 | commencing |
| 释义 | commencing present participle ofcommence commence verb[ I or T ] formaluk /kəˈmens/ us /kəˈmens/ C2 to begin something: 开始;着手 We will commence building work in August of next year.我们将于明年8月开始破土动工。 Shall we let the meeting commence?我们开始开会，好吗？ [ + -ing verb ]Unfortunately, he commenced speaking before all the guests had finished eating.遗憾的是，没等所有客人都吃完，他就开始讲话了。 to begin to (make something) happen startHurry up – the film has already started. beginThe ceremony is about to begin. commenceThe meeting commenced with a moment of silence. openThe meeting opened with a short word of welcome to new members. originateThe idea for the business originated with my grandmother's recipes. to start to do something beginI'll begin working on the project this weekend. startHave you started your homework yet? commenceWe commenced listening to Uncle Jim's long story, knowing we were in for it now. embark on/upon somethingThat fateful morning, she embarked upon the longest solo climb in history. enter on/upon somethingWith his diagnosis, we entered upon the most difficult time of our lives. Starting and beginning be in the first flush ofidiom be/get in on the ground flooridiom become begin branch out develop grow half-cock here here goes!idiom hit the ground runningidiom motion sail in start (something) off start on something start out start/set/get the ball rollingidiom starting the ground floor wheel Examples of commencingcommencing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. His creatures are interactive with other machines, commencing with simple patterns of behaviour and evolving to more complex ones. Thus, for example, for the group of unions commencing 10 years ago, information is available only on those that are still intact. We stressed that involvement was optional before commencing interviews and through an introductory letter. The second special ethical problem facing the animal researcher commencing an experiment is that the hoped-for benefits of the research still lie in the future. Observations were made at midday (with recording commencing 15 min before) and at dusk for both species. Then, commencing in 1998, we will move to a schedule of publication of six issues per volume. It is important to take into account both the age of the patient and symptoms before commencing thyroxine therapy. Maximum follow-up from the time of commencing treatment was 5.9 years with a median of 1.3 years. Most states had explicit requirements regarding how much stock had to be subscribed, and how much actually had to be paid in before commencing business. Before commencing the test, they were shown a correctly completed example. The human tourist invokes an instance of a tourist software agent on commencing a consultation session. Any food intake commencing after this time was considered to be calorie intake after the evening meal. Levels of attrition from referral for counselling to commencing were relatively high (188 invitations: 89 took up counselling). Three pairs of shallow lateral glabellar furrows developed, all commencing at axial furrows. Before commencing the experiment, the participants were asked to repeat each word in order to test the reproduction of the items. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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