Some farmers who are not in the program have begun adopting organic farming techniques in hopes of joining small organic cooperatives that are beginning to negotiate long-term contracts with European organic and fair-trade wholesalers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

I have tried to give this lecture at the beginning of the term, at the end of the term.

或者末尾讲这些内容,现在我想试试第三种方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you -but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, ] from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term.

今天我将用几天前发给你们的,却没有进行讨论的资料，开始我们的课程，从那篇叫做“好的作家和好的读者“的文章开始,我曾在本学期课程的最开始引用过它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"But President Obama is starting to show that he is not quite as popular, or that he does not walk on water in the way that many people thought at the beginning of his term and his popularity has come down."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23