It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

So that's a good start for us putting together a skeletal structure for this compound here.

因此这对我们画这个化合物的,骨架结构来说是个好的开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And as Walt Whitman wrote in poem after poem, and other poets did as well, and politicians said over and over and over and over America, and this United States, this nation formed there would be the beginning of a new man, a new start for humankind.

对此沃尔特·惠特曼和其他诗人,写下了众多的诗篇,政治家们也对此喋喋不休,这片土地上,在美利坚合众国,人们可以获得新生,这也是,人类的新起点

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

There was enough space in the bone for the healthy marrow to start producing new red blood cells.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Now here's a question for you guys, which we're going to vote on, so you better start thinking about it.

现在我希望，大家来，判断一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But,she later woke up. The first thing she asked for was a pair of scissors so she could start another paper creation.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

We started talking about these on Wednesday, and what we're going to start with is considering specifically the wave functions for multi-electron atoms.

我们从周三开始讨论这些，而且我们将要以特别地考虑,多电子原子的波函数,为开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Then she got an idea. If she could create a hair product that worked for her, she could start her own business.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

It turns out not, but it does evince the fact that we have some basic syntax like mathematics and equal signs and whatnot with which we can now start using for more useful purposes.

结果不是那样的，但这的确有个事实,我们有些基本的运算法则和等号和,其他一些东西，用来为我们一些,更多有用的目的而服务的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For example, compared to Western countries, women in developing countries start having children at an earlier age.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Well, you can start by looking for ways to use English as much as you can.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

The risk for that is you basically start to compete with every single one of your customers.

这样做的风险是,原来的客户都成了竞争对手。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

The spill comes shortly before the start of the fishing season for crab, shrimp and oysters.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Before that the United States went through repeated banking crises when people would start demanding the gold for their notes.

才有了中央银行，在这之前,当人们向银行索要金子来兑现他们的纸币时,美国经历了一次又一次的重蹈覆辙的银行业危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But industry experts say card providers might now start charging new fees for all cardholders.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Listen for a while and your body almost will start to tell you start to signal to you, where the downbeat is.

听一会,然后你们的身体大致才会告诉你们,开始给你们信号,告诉你重拍在哪里

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"We will start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person and language can be used for this.

我可以把你描述成，或想象成,不是一个人，而我可以利用语言做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I'm Steve Ember. Germany's attack on Poland and the start of World War Two in Europe presented a problem for Americans in September of nineteen-thirty-nine.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

He only has two to start with and for you, it's how many battalions of his get destroyed?

他只有两个营的兵力,而你的收益是入侵者损失多少兵力

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Elizabeth returned to the United States to start America's first training school for nurses.

VOA: special.2010.09.12

Nonetheless, in any given week, for the start of that week, you should have done the readings that are listed for that week.

虽然如此，在给定的时间里，在作为开始的那个星期，你必须完成,清单上所列出的那周的任务。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I got a room and waited for the start of my class.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

When do they start thinking of themselves as French? And this has been hotly debated in the literature for a very long time.

他们什么时候开始觉得自己是法国人了,这曾在文学界,引起长时间热烈的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And for them, they don't have time for us to start over."

VOA: special.2010.02.27

For us, we can start not so all the way back at Classical Greece, but with Alexander the Great, and the beginning of Hellenization; that is, the Grecization of the eastern part of the Ancient Mediterranean.

我们不必追溯到古典希腊时期，而从亚历山大大帝及希腊化初始讲起;,就是古代地中海东部地区的希腊化。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Everybody wants to go for a wonderful hike and start off with fresh air and all the things we're going to have in our lives the whole next year.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

When we start writing code, you're going to see that difference, but for now, don't worry about it, I just want to plant that idea.

当我们开始写代码的时候，你就会看到区别了，但是现在别担心，我只是想让你们初步有个印象。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

What I'd like to do is start off by introducing our teaching fellows for the class.

我非常高兴地向大家介绍,本课程的助教

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选