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To make matters worse, it began to rain.
さらに悪いことに雨が降り始めた。
We began to sail in the direction of the port.
我々は港の方へ航行し始めた。
Our conversation opened, as usual, upon the weather.
私たちの会話はいつものように天気に関して始まった。
The rainy season has set in.
雨季が始まった。
The flowers are opening.
花が咲き始めている。
People can begin to love when they choose, but they have no choice when it comes to ending love.
恋は自由に始められるが、恋を終わらせるにはそうはいかない。
School begins the day after tomorrow.
学校は明後日から始まります。
Recently, I came to think that it's impossible to become able to speak a foreign language unless you're in a classroom with a teacher teaching it to you properly.
外国語をちゃんと授業で先生に教えてもらわないと話せるようにならない、と近頃考え始めました。
It began to snow.
雪が降り始めた。
I lost a school key when I was cleaning up after the school festival and I was then required to write an apology letter.
私は学祭の片付けの際に学校の鍵を紛失して始末書を書くことになりました。
He came right at the beginning of the game.
彼はちょうど試合が始まったときにやって来た。
His standing up was the signal for everybody to start leaving the room.
彼が立ち上がったのを合図に皆は部屋から出始めた。
It is forty years since I began studying Japanese.
私が日本語の勉強を始めてから40年になる。
This means that houses are starting to sink, roads are breaking up and lamp-posts are leaning at crazy angles.
このことは家が沈み始め、道路が裂けて街灯が途方もない角度に傾きつつあることを意味する。
Suddenly rain began to fall.
急に雨が降り始めた。
Each part of a book starts with references to its author's life: a passage from a read book, a question directed to a stranger on a roadside, something shouted by a girlfriend.