BEGINNING

[bɪ`gɪnɪŋ]

начало

начальный этап, начальная стадия, истоки

точка отправления

источник; первопричина, происхождение

beginning: translation

▪ new

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She spoke of a new beginning for the nation.

▪ auspicious, hopeful, promising

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It was an auspicious beginning to his long career.

▪ inauspicious, unpromising (esp. BrE)

▪ herald, mark, represent, signal, signify, spell, symbolize

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This invention marked the beginning of the modern age.

▪ see, witness

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2001 saw the beginning of a period of rapid growth.

▪ trace

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a custom that traces its beginnings to the 15th century

▪ at the beginning (of sth)

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I'm paid at the beginning of each month.

▪ from the beginning

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Tell me the whole story, right from the beginning.

▪ in the beginning

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In the beginning I found the course very difficult.

▪ the beginning of the end

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That day was the beginning of the end of our friendship.

▪ early beginnings, first beginnings

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The society had its early beginnings in discussion groups.

▪ from beginning to end

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The play was nonsense from beginning to end.

▪ from humble beginnings, from modest beginnings, from small beginnings

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From these small beginnings it grew into the vast company we know today.

▪ be just the beginning, be only the beginning

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These changes are just the beginning: much more is to come.

▪ the very beginning

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I disliked her from the very beginning.

1. начало

2.1) исходная точка; источник, происхождение

2) pl истоки; начальная стадия

3. (the beginning) рел. первопричина; начало всех начал

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a good beginning is half the battle - посл. хорошее начало полдела откачало

beginning [bɪˊgɪnɪŋ]

1. pres. p. от begin

2. n

1) нача́ло;

right from the beginning с са́мого нача́ла

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2) исто́чник; происхожде́ние

3) pl исто́ки, нача́льная ста́дия

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a good beginning is half the battle, a good beginning makes a good ending посл. ≅ хоро́шее нача́ло полде́ла откача́ло

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a bad beginning makes a bad ending посл. ≅ что посе́ешь, то и пожнёшь

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beginning: translation

abecedarian, aboriginal, alpha, anlage, antenatal, anticipation, appearance, authorship, autochthonous, babyhood, basal, beginnings, birth, budding, childhood, coinage, commencement, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, cradle, creation, creative, creative effort, dawn, dawning, day, derivation, devising, earliness, early hour, early stage, elemental, elementary, embryonic, emergence, fabrication, fetal, first crack, first stage, foresight, formative, foundational, freshman year, fundamental, generation, genesis, gestatory, grass roots, ground floor, hatching, head, head start, improvisation, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inception, inceptive, inchoate, inchoation, inchoative, incipience, incipiency, incipient, incunabula, incunabular, infancy, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, invention, inventive, making do, mintage, nascence, nascency, nascent, natal, nativity, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, outstart, parturient, parturition, postnatal, pregnancy, pregnant, prenatal, prevenience, prevision, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, prologue, provenience, radical, radix, readiness, rise, root, rudiment, rudimental, rudimentary, running start, setout, source, spring, sprout, start, stem, stock, taproot, time to spare, ur, very beginning, youth

• Bad beginning has a bad ending (A) - Каково начало, таков и конец (K), Плохое начало не к доброму концу (П), Худо начинается, худо и кончается (X)

• Bad beginning makes a good ending (A) - Первый блин комом (П)

• Bad beginning makes a worse ending (A) - Плохое начало не к доброму концу (П), Худо начинается, худо и кончается (X)

• Beginning is not everything (The) - Легко начать, да нелегко кончить (Л), Не бойся начала, а бойся конца (H), Не мудрено начать, мудрено кончать (H), Не стращай началом, покажи конец (H)

• Beginning is the hardest (The) - Лиха беда начало (Л)

• Beware beginnings - Лиха беда начало (Л)

• Every beginning is hard - Лиха беда начало (Л)

• Everything has (must have) a beginning - Без начала нет конца (Б)

• Good beginning is half the battle (the business, the task) (A) - Доброе начало полдела откачало (Д)

• Good beginning makes a good ending (A) - Каково начало, таков и конец (K), Путному началу благой конец (П)

• Бумага все терпит beginning, (has) an ill ending (An) - Плохое начало не к доброму концу (П)

• In every beginning think of the end - Начиная дело, о конце думай (H)

• Poor beginning makes a good ending (A) - Первый блин комом (П)

• Such beginning, such end - Каково начало, таков и конец (K)

• This is only the beginning - То ли еще будет! (T), Это еще цветочки, а ягодки впереди (Э)