The novelist Edith Wharton once wrote that the end is latent in the beginning.

小说家伊迪丝·华顿曾写道，即蕴藏着结局。

Hermione read the few lines of spiky, acid-green writing aloud.

赫敏大声地读着尖刻，带有讽刺意味几行。

But it started with some practical problems.

但万事。

This memory came back to me one day while I was working at the laundry, and I started seeing the opening scene of a story: girls showering in a locker room where there were no U-rings, pink plastic curtains, or privacy.

有一天，我在洗衣房工作时候，这段记忆突然浮上心，我始构想一个故事：女生们在一间没有U形环或粉红浴帘、没有隐私浴室里淋浴。

It's like a summary at the beginning of the paragraph so that the reader will not be surprised by anything you say.

就像放在每段总结一样，这样读者就不会对后面写内容感到意外了。

We often use the past subjunctive in subordinate clauses that begin with as though, as if, and if, as well as with the verb wish.

我们经常在从句中使用过去虚拟语气，从句以 as though，as if，and if 还有 wish 。

If you're looking for city chicken, you're not gonna find it under C. Really?

如果想找“牛豬肉片交疊串烤肉”，在 C 那一栏根本找不到。真吗？

With emails, you can start like a letter.

写邮件以像写信一样。

We started with weather, we're ending with weather.

我们之前以天气, 我们也将以天气收尾。

They all begin with the letter E, their names.

它们名字都以字母E。

First and foremost, most small talk conversations begin with.

首先，大多数闲聊对话都以这句话。

And it's restricted to the beginning of syllables.

它被限制在音节。

" Let me see the start you've made on your dream diary, please."

“请让我看看做梦日记几篇。”

In America the Commodity Futures Trading Commission last year published a 200-page report beginning " Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the US financial system."

去年，美国商品期货交易委员会(CFTC)发布了一份200页报告，其是“气候变化对美国金融体系稳定性构成重大风险”。

But in fluent, everyday speech, when one word ends in a plosive sound and the next begins in another consonant sound, we don't always hear the release of the plosive sound.

在日常英语中，当一个单词以爆破音结尾，而下一个单词以辅音，我们经常听不到爆破音出现。

So perhaps even more so than with letters, memorandum should start with the statement of the purpose early in the message.

于是能这种情况比信件更加明显，便笺应该一始就以阐明目作为。

Most can easily be made longer (try adding " She said that… " to the beginning of any declarative sentence).

大多数都以很容易地变长(试着在陈述句加上“She said that… ”)。

The letter N was no doubt the initial of the name of that mystifying individual in command beneath the seas!

N能是在海底下发号施令那位神秘人物姓名一个字母！

The worst thing that will happen is that you will become known as the young man who smiles and says hello, and that is not a bad thing to start with.

这样做最糟糕结果不过是，人们会记住这个爱笑爱打招呼年轻人，这是个不错。

Of course, you already know how to open the letter.

当然，已经知道如何写信件了。