commenced v. 开始(commence的过去分词)
- Reportedly, the land mass estimates will soon be commenced construction.
据透露,该地块估计不日将开始动工建设。 - "Nothing," replied the count; "only, as you see, the Carnival his commenced.
“没什么,”伯爵回答,”只是,如您所见,狂欢节已经开始了。 - The prelude of the night is commenced in the music of the sunset,in its solemn hymn to the ineffable dark.
夜的序麯是开始于夕阳西下的音乐,开始于它对难以形容的黑夜所作的庄严的的赞歌。
Commence \Com*mence"\ (k[o^]m*m[e^]ns"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Commenced} (k[o^]m*m[e^]nst"); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Commencing}.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L. com- +
initiare to begin. See {Initiate}.]
1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to
begin.
Here the anthem doth commence. --Shak.
His heaven commences ere the world be past.
--Goldsmith.
2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic]
We commence judges ourselves. --Coleridge.
3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.]
I question whether the formality of commencing was
used in that age. --Fuller.