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What began as a small neighborhood gathering blossomed into a massive cultural event, welcoming tens of thousands of people each year over nearly two decades before abruptly shutting down.
它最初只是一个小型的邻里聚会，后来发展成为一场大型文化盛事，在近二十年里每年接待数以万计的人，然后突然停办。
“While there is some optimism that emerging countermeasures and best practices may see piracy begin to plateau by 2027, there is no consensus among stakeholders as to when it may begin to decline,” says analyst Steve Hawley.
分析师史蒂夫·霍利说：“虽然有人乐观地认为，新出现的应对措施和最佳做法可能会使盗版在2027年前趋于平稳，但对于盗版何时可能开始减少，各利益相关方并未达成共识。”
“While there is some optimism that emerging countermeasures and best practices may see piracy begin to plateau by 2027, there is no consensus among stakeholders as to when it may begin to decline,” says analyst Steve Hawley.
分析师史蒂夫·霍利说：“虽然有人乐观地认为，新出现的应对措施和最佳做法可能会使盗版在2027年前趋于平稳，但对于盗版何时可能开始减少，各利益相关方并未达成共识。”
This must begin with the question of how we maximise the health of the nation, rather than “fix” the NHS.
这必须从如何最大限度地提升国民健康这一问题入手，而不是去“修补”NHS。
Self-sliding doors began to emerge as a commercial product in 1960 after being invented six years [previously] by Americans Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt.
自动滑动门由美国人迪·霍顿和卢·休伊特于六年前发明，1960年开始作为商业产品出现。
Nearly 2,000 years ago, as the Romans began to pull out of Scotland, they left behind a curious treasure: 10 tons of nails, nearly a million of the things.
大约2000年前，罗马人开始撤出苏格兰时，留下了一批奇特的宝藏：10吨钉子，将近一百万枚。
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States have begun implementing their own solutions to shore up protections for consumer-generated health data.
各州已开始实施自己的解决方案，以加强对消费者产生的健康数据的保护。
The problem began late last year, when PRH confirmed that it had introduced a credit limit with Waterstones “at a very significant level”.
问题始于去年年底，当时企鹅兰登书屋证实，它已对水石书店实行了“幅度非常大的”信用额度限制。
The journey officially began in Ogden, Utah on June 8, 1871.
这次旅程于1871年6月8日在犹他州奥格登正式启程。
No one knows for sure when poetry began but it has been around for thousands of years, even before people could write.
没有人确切知道诗歌起源于何时，但它已经存在了数千年，甚至在人类会书写之前就已存在。
Beginning in 2006, some scientists have [argued] that plants possess neuron-like cells that interact with hormones and neurotransmitters, [forming] “a plant nervous system, [analogous] to that in animals,” said lead study author Lincoln Taiz, “They [even] claimed that plants have ‘brain-like command centers’ at their root tips.”
该研究的第一作者林肯·泰兹说：“从2006年开始，一些科学家就主张植物拥有与激素和神经递质相互作用的类神经元细胞，从而构成‘一个类似于动物神经系统的植物神经系统’，他们甚至声称植物的根尖处有‘类似大脑的指挥中心’。”
In the 1960s, the Italian artist Piero Gilardi began to create hundreds of bright, colorful foam pieces.
20世纪60年代，意大利艺术家皮耶罗·吉拉尔迪开始创作数百件色彩鲜艳的泡沫作品。
[Remember] that most bestselling authors began writing when they were doing other things to earn a living.
要记住，大多数畅销书作家都是在靠做其他事情谋生时开始写作的。
These demands resulted in a very rapid expansion of the systems of higher education, beginning in the 1960s and developing very rapidly (though unevenly) during the 1970s and 1980s.
这些需求导致高等教育体系急剧扩张，这种扩张始于20世纪60年代，并在70年代和80年代迅速（尽管不均衡地）发展。
Along with Singapore, other governments and mega-corporations are beginning to establish their own guidelines.
除新加坡外，其他国家的政府和大型企业也开始制定各自的指导方针。
It was only after I started to write a weekly column about the medical journals, and began to read scientific papers from beginning to end, that I realised just how bad much of the medical literature frequently was.
直到我开始为医学期刊撰写每周专栏，并开始从头到尾阅读科学论文之后，我才意识到许多医学文献常常有多么糟糕。
In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building. The commission was also to consider possible arrangements for the War and Navy Departments. To the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house all three departments began in June of 1871.
1869年12月，国会任命了一个委员会，为新的国务院大楼选址，并制定规划和成本预算。该委员会还要考虑为陆军部和海军部作出可能的安排。令一些人震惊的是——他们原本期待在白宫另一侧建起一座与财政部大楼如出一辙的希腊复兴式建筑——阿尔弗雷德·马利特设计的精致的法国第二帝国风格方案被选中，一座容纳全部三个部门的大楼于1871年6月开工建设。
The history of the EEOB began long before its foundations were laid. The first executive offices were constructed between 1799 and 1820. A series of fires (including those set by the British in 1814) and overcrowded conditions led to the construction of the existing Treasury Building. In 1866, the construction of the North Wing of the Treasury Building necessitated the demolition of the State Department building.
艾森豪威尔行政办公大楼的历史早在其奠基之前很久就开始了。最早的行政办公楼建于1799年至1820年间。一系列火灾（包括1814年英国人纵的火）和过度拥挤的状况促成了现有财政部大楼的建造。1866年，财政部大楼北翼的建设使得国务院大楼不得不被拆除。
(49) A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.
(49) 本土的文学戏剧已经诞生，它与公共剧院的联盟已经建立，并且至少它的一些伟大传统已经开创。
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The Parkrun phenomenon began with a dozen friends and has inspired 400 events in the UK and more abroad.
“公园跑”现象始于十几个朋友，如今已在英国催生了400场活动，在海外则更多。
Mr. Dunwell has begun bringing high school juniors to the factory so they can get exposed to its culture.
邓韦尔先生已经开始带高中三年级学生到工厂参观，让他们接触工厂文化。
When the recovery began, worker shortages first appeared in the high-skilled trades.
经济复苏开始时，工人短缺首先出现在高技能行业。
After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally — which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.
购物大约40分钟后，大多数人就不再努力进行理性选择，而是开始情绪化购物——正是在这个时候，我们的购物车里堆积起了那50%原本根本没打算买的东西。
You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.
你开始推断文本的语境，例如，判断其中涉及何种言语事件：谁在说话，对谁说，在何时何地说。
We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.
这样我们或许就可以开始解决我们面临的移民难题。
As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.
随着其他所有人付出的代价日益明显，政客们开始进行压制。
This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading — between passive consumption and active creation — whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine.
这是因为联网计算机引发了一场下载与上传之间——被动消费与主动创造之间——的秘密战争，其结果将以我们才刚刚开始想象的方式塑造我们共同的未来。
It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
直到20世纪80年代中期，放大年龄和性别差异成为儿童产品的主要营销策略，粉色才真正大行其道，开始显得天生对女孩有吸引力，成为界定她们女性身份的一部分，至少在最初几个关键年份里是如此。
The great recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably beginning.
大衰退或许已经结束，但这个高失业率的时代可能才刚刚开始。
In 1337, Petrarch began work on his rambling writing De Viris Illustribus — On Famous Men, highlighting the virtus (or virtue) of classical heroes.
1337年，彼特拉克开始撰写他那部散漫冗长的著作《名人传》，着重彰显古典英雄的美德。
It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry [because] they are sad but that they become sad when the tears begin to flow.
19世纪末曾有人提出，人不是因为悲伤才哭泣，而是在眼泪开始流下时才变得悲伤。
As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.
随着经济复苏的最初迹象开始显现，副手们可能更愿意在没有退路的情况下跳槽。
This trend, which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.
我们认为这一趋势仍处于起步阶段，它实际上始于零售商以及航空公司、酒店等旅游服务商，而且无疑会进一步发展。
In fact, (49) circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us, and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.
事实上，（49）环境似乎就是为了激发我们最好的一面而设计的，如果我们觉得自己受了“委屈”，那么我们就不太可能开始有意识地努力摆脱自己的处境。
even its supporters begin to feel concerned.
就连它的支持者也开始感到担忧。
“If we were really bold, we might even begin to think of high-calorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes — by setting strict limits on advertising, product placement and sponsorship of sports events,” he said.
他说：“如果我们真的有魄力，甚至可以开始像对待香烟一样对待高热量快餐——对广告、植入式广告和体育赛事赞助加以严格限制。”