commence
动词 v.
英 /kəˈmɛns/
美 /kəˈmɛns/|/kəˈmens/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To begin, start.
— Here the anthem doth commence:
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To begin, start.
— The speeches commenced three days of workshops, seminars, and cultural activities.
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To begin or start.
— At dawn we'll commence to drive.
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To begin to be, or to act as.
— […] he furnish’d me with a Gun, Cartouch-box, and Powder-horn, &c. and thus accouter’d I commenc’d Soldier.
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To take a degree at a university.
— […] I question whether the Formality of Commencing was used in that Age: inclining rather to the negative, that such Distinction of Graduates was then unknown […]
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English commencen, comencen (also as contracted comsen, cumsen), from Anglo-Norman comencer, from Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, formed from Latin com- + initiō (whence English initiate).
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