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commencement

/kuh-mens-muhnt/US // kəˈmɛns mənt //UK // (kəˈmɛnsmənt) //

开始,启动,展开,生效

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of commencing; beginning: the commencement of hostilities.
    • : the ceremony of conferring degrees or granting diplomas at the end of the academic year.
    • : the day on which this ceremony takes place.

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Examples

  • Digiday caught up with Coleman to talk about commencement pay the gig economy and the future of work.

  • Former Olympians and members of the public carry the Olympic flame from Athens all the way to the opening ceremony, signifying the official commencement of the games.

  • Both before the ceremony, when families arrived, and again after the commencement, when they spilled happily outside to take photographs, not a single person attending the graduation stopped in the tent to get vaccinated.

  • Emancipation was ultimately secured in December 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment and the commencement of federal Reconstruction.

  • The plagiarism incident was not the only commencement embarrassment for Caslen.

  • You may not remember, but you were our commencement keynote speaker that day at the George Washington University National Center.

  • This power has been seen recently in a host of cancellations of commencement speakers.

  • Kudos to Ex-Mayor Mike, whose Harvard commencement address called for inclusion of more conservatives in higher education.

  • All you really need for an inspiring commencement address is untamed enthusiasm and a big dream.

  • Speaking at the Commencement Ceremony at West Point, he said, “We are winding down our war in Afghanistan,” he said.

  • In this little room the galleries had been designed; the windows had looked upon the commencement of the great work.

  • But Ulm was only the commencement of the campaign, and even after Austerlitz Napoleon pursued the enemy with grim resolution.

  • He graduated at Yale college, and at the commencement of hostilities was appointed to the chief command of the Connecticut troops.

  • The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.

  • At the very commencement of the campaign Massna committed a fault which almost ruined his career.