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

VOA: special.2011.08.08

The Brits were for a start, the Brits, England sort of... Scotland I should say.

是英国,不列颠,英格兰和苏格兰

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

My opinion, well, it's expensive for a start.

我的观点，开始觉得东西都很贵。

讲述伦敦的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

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

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

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

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

other people had solved that problem for me, and this thing between quotes, we'll start calling a string.

至于如何实现的别人已经解决了，这个在引号之间的东西叫字符串。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.01.30

So, if you're looking for another reason to quit, if you're looking for a reason not to start smoking, here's another good one.

因此，如果你正在寻找戒烟的另一个理由，如果你正在寻找一个不开始吸烟的理由，这就是很好的一个。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

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

"Well,advice for a rising senior is to start early.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

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

The business council says it is also time for start work on setting a timeline for establishing an APEC free trade agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

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

For the past several years, Russian and American officials have been trying to agree on a post-START-1 arrangement - but with little progress.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Well, builders can sell for a really high price, so they start building a lot of houses.

建造商能以高价将房屋卖出,所以他们广建新房

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Even after you start moving into a recovery-positive growth-hiring typically lags for some time after that.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

And I thought from the start, this is going to be a little test for Nato.

从一开始我就想，这将是北约组织面对一个小的测验。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Some analysts are warning of dire consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians if Mr.Netanyahu's government does not relent and start working toward a two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

How many of you, if you were playing for, I guess it's going to be America, which is a sad thing to start with,never mind.

有多少人会,假设你为一个球队效力,比如说是美国国家队吧,可能有些难以启齿,没关系

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"When it is all said and done, I think it is time for a 'do over'. We need to start this budget process all over again.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

STUDENT: So are you entering a tuple in for start and end?

学生：那么你把开始点和结束点,访在一个元组里面输入么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So for the locals it is very hard to start a business there.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Let me start briefly by mentioning a possibility for a positive interaction effect.

让我们暂时从谈论,一种正面互相影响的可能性开始吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Like for instance, there was a young person who came to me some years back and he said that he wanted to start a solar energy business.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

The nervous system, the endocrine system which we'll start talking about a little bit today is the system that's responsible for sending signals back and forth between tissues of your body.

还有神经系统,和我们今天将要提到的内分泌系统,内分泌系统主要负责,在体内各组织之间传递信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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