begin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (began， begun) 开始， 着手，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For God's sake, let me smoke in peace for a little while!And then I will begin to tell you."
-- CHAPTER XXIII IN DRURY LANE "But you begin now to realise," said the Invisible Man, "the full disadvantage of my condition.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You begin to see that it is a possible thing to transplant tissue from one part of an animal to another, or from one animal to another; to alter its chemical reac-tions and methods of growth; to modify the articulations of its limbs; and, indeed, to change it in its most intimate structure.
-- I turn them out when I begin to feel the beast in them, and presently they wander there.
-- Under the shouted directions of Moreau I heard the three white-swathed Bull-men begin dragging the vic-tim down towards the water.
-- So indurated was I at that time to the abomination of the place, that I heard without a touch of emotion the puma victim begin another day of torture.
-- Had I possessed sufficient cartridges, I should not have hesitated to begin the killing.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To begin a night's work with that noise!Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?'
-- Then all would begin again till they grew tired of the city and went back to the tree-tops, hoping the Jungle-People would notice them.
-- From a little hill called Hutchinson's Hill, you could look over three and a half miles of ground covered with fighting seals; and the surf was dotted all over with the heads of seals hurrying to land and begin their share of the fighting.
-- Rikki-tikki knew that he must catch her, or all the trou-ble would begin again.
-- Little Vixen, my fox terrier, went out through the other side; and then there was a roaring and a grunting and bubbling, and I saw the tent cave in, as the pole snapped, and begin to dance about like a mad ghost.
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：
-- 'We have been like hunters who have lost the points of the heavens, and from whom the sun has been hid for days,' said Hawkeye, turning away from his companions; 'now we begin again to know the signs of our course, and the paths are cleared from briers!Seat yourselves in the shade which the moon throws from yonder beech 'tis thick-er than that of the pines and let us wait for that which the Lord may choose to send next.
-- 'The walls are crumbling about our ears, and provisions begin to fail us,' continued Heyward, without regarding the new burst of indignation; 'even the men show signs of dis-content and alarm.'
-- Mais, monsieur, is it not time to begin to take more counsel of humanity, and less of your courage?
-- I begin to have some hopes of the fellow, since he has given up squalling to follow some bet-ter trade.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
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：
-- Are you sure it won't begin to worry you?
-- Most men begin painting at eighteen."
-- With my mind's eye I saw Strickland throw his hat on a table, and, sitting down, begin to smoke a cigarette.
-- My first idea was to begin it with the account of Strickland's last years in Tahiti and with his horrible death, and then to go back and relate what I knew of his beginnings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Did these footprints begin at the water's edge?"
-- All three climbed the bank; and arrived at the angle made by the river, the sailor, stopping, said to his two companions, "Shall we begin by being hunters or wood-men?"
-- "Perhaps," replied the engineer, "but we will begin by first manufacturing some bows and arrows, and I don't doubt that you will become as clever in the use of them as the Australian hunters."
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