1. Before long he has begun his own private ´telephone´ service.
    不久他办起了自己的私人“电话”业务。

2. Both men had just begun to swim towards the shore, when they noticed with dismay that the speedboat was moving in a circle.
    两个人刚开始向岸边游去，就突然惊愕地发现快艇正在转着圈行驶，

3. Well begun is half done.
    好的开端是成功的一半。

4. Work on it had begun before my sister left.
    这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前就已动工了，

5. The beam has begun to sag.
    横梁开始下垂了。

6. The first of the two ships to reach Java after the race had begun was the Thermopylae, but on the Indian Ocean, the Cutty Sark took lead.
    比赛开始后，"赛姆皮雷"号率先抵达爪哇岛。但在印度洋上，"卡萨萨克"号驶到了前面。

7. Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.
    两个主要种植者，朱塞皮.莫尔道瓦和里卡多.布拉班特告诉我，他们一直期待着今年获得一个大丰收，收割工作比往年开始要早些。

8. The importance of this trait to success was shown in an experiment begun in the 1960s by Walter Mischel at a preschool on the Stanford University campus.
    有一个实验说明了这一特性对成功的重要意义。实验是20世纪60年代由沃尔特·米歇尔在斯坦福大学校园内的一所幼儿园里做的。

9. Next, the Algerian adventure had begun, and it appeared that this might prove expensive in lives.
    其次，对阿尔及利亚的冒险行动已经开始，看来这可能被证明是要付出巨大生命代价的。

10. Demolition work has begun on the old building.
    那座旧房子的拆除工作业已开始。