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单词 commence
释义
commence
verb[IorT]
formal
uk
/kəˈmens/us
/kəˈmens/
C2
tobeginsomething:
开始；着手
We will commencebuildingworkinAugustof nextyear.我们将于明年8月开始破土动工。
Shall weletthemeetingcommence?我们开始开会，好吗？
[+ -ing verb]Unfortunately, he commencedspeakingbefore all theguestshadfinishedeating.遗憾的是，没等所有客人都吃完，他就开始讲话了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Starting and beginning
  • be in the first flush ofidiom
  • be/get in on the ground flooridiom
  • become
  • begin
  • branch out
  • develop
  • export
  • get down to businessidiom
  • grow
  • half-cock
  • here
  • here goes!idiom
  • hit the ground runningidiom
  • inaugurate
  • strike
  • strike out(somewhere)
  • stuck
  • stumble intosomething
  • swing into actionidiom
  • takesomethingup
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(Definition ofcommencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

commence| American Dictionary

commence
verb[I/T]
us
/kəˈmens/
tobeginsomething:
[T]He commencedspeakingbefore all theguestshadarrived.
(Definition ofcommencefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommence

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All three children were fully able to understand both languages at ageappropriate levels and could produce spontaneous utterances in both languages before recording commenced.
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Each set commenced with two, two-word sequences, followed by two, three-word sequences, and so on until a maximum of two, eleven-word sequences was reached.
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It commences shortly after the patient has begun to recover from an acute episode of bipolar mania, depression, or mixed disorder.
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The intervention group was a closed cohort group where no rolling admissions were allowed into the group after treatment had commenced.
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Counting commenced directly after each 2-h shedding period and was discontinued after the last 2-h period during which no cercariae were observed.
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With the advent of electronics and computer technology in 1950, automation commenced to apply electronics and computer systems to control machines.
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We then conduct a probit analysis to assess the likelihood that a country (currently not consolidating) willcommencea consolidation.
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The majority of patients who commenced counselling were female (67%).
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His creatures are interactive with other machines, commencing with simple patterns of behaviour and evolving to more complex ones.
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Then crawling a few steps was commenced, keeping the same relaxed, lengthened posture.
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Event-driven analysis of efficacy data is anticipated tocommencein 2008.
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The stages may overlap, in that further evolution of one stage may continue to complexify after evolution of a later stage has commenced.
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Ideally, study of a causal role for life events in depressive disorder wouldcommencearound the time of first onset.
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The story does have a protagonist, a person hearing the environmental noises as he or she commences the trip.
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There is evidence that this process may have commenced prior to the last common ancestor, but if so, it was still in its infancy.
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