请教大全667，begin with/in

fdkbaby

667.    Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.
(A) Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as
(B) Muller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as
(C) Muller’s career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
(D) Muller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
(E) the career of Muller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of

参考答案B。

我的疑问是begin with 和 begin in 都可以吗？还是说begin with是比较常用的搭配，而begin in在这里是为了和后面的culminated in 相平行。

请大家指教！多谢了。

gemj

字典上有begin at/on (upon)/with，但没有begin in。
BEGIN和IN是不是应该分开理解？

seanql

in an unpromising apprenticeship是介词短语作begin的状语

fdkbaby

问题在于one's career begins with an unpromising apprenticeship可不可以？还是应该说one begins his/her career with an unpromising apprenticeship？

我感觉两者没有什么太大区别。因为都可以这么改写：
with an unpromising apprenticeship, one's career begins.
with an unpromsing apprenticeship, one begins his/her career.
with...做career或者one的伴随状语，似乎都可以。

好困惑啊！

dreadpower

刚才查了一下字典，如下：
    习惯用语：to begin with      首先；第一点（理由）

To begin with, we must consider the faculties of the staff all-sidedly.
首先,我们必须全面地考虑全体员工的素质。
We can't go. To begin with, it's too cold.
我们不能去。首先，天太冷了。

按照这个意思理解，你说的：“问题在于one's career begins with an unpromising apprenticeship可不可以？还是应该说one begins his/her career with an unpromising apprenticeship？”似乎是不对的。

with an unpromising apprenticeship, one's career begins.
with an unpromsing apprenticeship, one begins his/her career.
with...做career或者one的伴随状语，似乎都可以。
我觉得都不对，with...介词短语在句首，修饰主语，
你不能说某个人的职业生涯（one's career）伴有an unpromising apprenticeship
或者某个人伴有an unpromising apprenticeship

不知道讲清楚了没有

fdkbaby

我又想了想，认为with an unpromsing apprenticeship, one begins his/her career.对，而with an unpromising apprenticeship, one's career begins.不对。

在中文里也只能说“某人以学徒身份开始了她的职业生涯”，而不能说“某人的职业生涯以学徒身份开始”。apprenticeship是对应于人的，而不是对应于事（career）的。

如果我的以上解释对，那么我就明白为什么选B，不选C了。否则就又回到所谓选B是不是要和后面的culminate in对称的问题了。

fdkbaby

以下是引用dreadpower在2003-11-28 22:17:00的发言：
刚才查了一下字典，如下：
     习惯用语：to begin with      首先；第一点（理由）

To begin with, we must consider the faculties of the staff all-sidedly.
首先,我们必须全面地考虑全体员工的素质。
We can't go. To begin with, it's too cold.
我们不能去。首先，天太冷了。

按照这个意思理解，你说的：“问题在于one's career begins with an unpromising apprenticeship可不可以？还是应该说one begins his/her career with an unpromising apprenticeship？”似乎是不对的。

这里用的是begin with，意思是“以...为开始”，而不是to begin with，“首先”。

dreadpower

谢谢指点~~~~~

avernus

还没搞清楚……求解答

Vivian1091

我能说，，这道题我觉得begin不是重点吗。。。贴上 千行excel的解释A(instructor）：Interesting question! After thinking about it for a bit, I think what determines the correct idiom for began is

the correct idiom for what comes after. What I mean is, because you would say She is in a promising internship, you could

say She began in a promising internship.

In an absolute sense, though, the normal idiom for marking a non-chronological start （非顺序启动）is began with (as in The word I was thinking

of began with P). You would expect began on for a specific date and began at for a time -- again, using the normal idioms

for those types of expressions apart from began.