1.开始
2.〈英〉获得学位
1.to begin, or to begin something
1.Then, with his knife, he began to carve all sorts of objects in wood ; it was thus that Pinelli, the famous sculptor, had commenced.
然后他又用小刀来雕刻各样的木头东西，大名鼎鼎的雕刻家庇尼里也就是这样开始的。
2.The battle of the luxury liners commenced. The Carmania was the victor, and the Cap Trafalgar went down in a sea of sharks.
两艘豪华邮轮开战，最后卡曼尼亚号奏捷，特拉法加角号沉进鲨鱼出没的海里。
3.There was some shadow of an attempt of this kind in the mode of celebrating the day on which the political year of the colony commenced.
在殖民地开始其政治年度的这一天庆祝活动中，还有这种意图的影子。
4.TAKE NOTICE that this action has been commenced against you by the plaintiff(S)for the claim(s)set out in this writ.
原告（们）已经对你（们）提起诉讼，请求见本传票。
5.They dispatched orders to stop the sack of the city, which had already commenced, and to assemble their scattered troops.
两位君王一进城便下令停止已蔓延开来的抢劫，并把分散的队伍聚集拢来。
6.Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict commenced at a time of our choosing.
如果他们拒绝这样做，结果只能是由我们自己选择时间开始的战争。
7.We never thought that we would be in a position to start producing oil from Kurdistan only two years after we commenced exploration.
我们从没想过，在开始石油勘探仅仅两年后，就开始从库尔德地区开采石油。
8.She was very keen on a particular painting and when the bidding commenced she got so carried away that she bid much more than she intended.
她很热衷于一个特定的绘画和当投标开始她变得如此带走她出价远远超过她的真实意图。
9.Deerslayer then commenced a succinct but clear narrative of all that occurred during the night.
杀鹿人把夜里发生的事简单而清楚地一一作了交代。
10.Such a team should preferably be in place before the first redevelopment project has actually commenced in a target area .
在各重建目标区的首项重建项目展开前，该区应尽可能先设立有关的服务队。