start

英[stɑːt]美[stɑːrt]

v.开始，启动，创办，从…开始；

n.开端，起始优势；

第三人称单数：starts;

过去式：started;

过去分词：started;

现在分词：starting;

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It looks like rain; Let's start for home.天像是要下雨了, 咱们回家吧!

They have decided to start up a nursery in the factory.他们已决定要在工厂里开办一个托儿所。

He signed on yesterday and will start work on Monday.他昨天签了合同, 星期一就要上班。

The plan was doomed from the start.这个计划从开始就注定要失败。

Here’s your food. Now get stuck in (= start eating).这是分给你的，快吃吧。

How long should the engine warm up before we start?我们出发前, 引擎需要预热多久?

You had better settle yourself down and start working.你*好安下心来工作。

It just wasn’t my day:the car wouldn’t start,I was late for the meeting,and to top it all I laddered my tights!那真是不顺心的日子:汽车发动不起来,我开会迟到,更糟糕的是,我的紧身衣抽丝了。

It’s time to start swotting up for the exam.现在该开始好好复习准备考试了。

Similes usually start with “like” or “as”.明喻通常以like或as开头。

英语六级真题

Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action and bring in other students, he said.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

Especially in affluent families, children start young.

Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.

Good morning! America’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

The bills in both houses would start pilot projects within Medicare.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

Stress is also starting earlier in life, with some data suggesting that today's teens are even more stressed than adults.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

Dr.Donald Sadoway at MIT started his own battery company with the hope of changing the world's energy future.

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

Okay, so let’s get started.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

Let’s say you start to brainstorm a list of all the emotions you’ve ever experienced.

And to start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.

The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

Once you have started the boulder rolling, it develops momentum, which is defined by its mass and velocity.

It was about ready to start regular business.

It is better to start from the community to help poor children move up the social ladder.

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

At the start of her career, Farrant studied "recalcitrant seeds (顽物性种子)," such as avocados, coffee and lychee.

Because it's such a pity if you start off on a bright tone on a story and suddenly realize you are talking about some people having been killed in a road crash.

But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.

But with simultaneous interpreting, you start translating almost as soon as the other person starts speaking.

Evolutionarily speaking, people in this age group are at a stage in which they can prepare to find a mate and start their own family while separating from parents and striking out on their own.

I don't intend to start it next week.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

If you really want to build resilience, you can start by strategically stopping.

I'll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth.

Let's say you start to brainstorm a list of all the emotions you've ever experienced.

One of the most effective ways to change an attitude is to start behaving as if you already feel and think the way you'd prefer to.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if "you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action" and bring in other students, he said.

right from the start, book printing and publishing were organized on capitalist lines.

So let's start with a few problems.

Start from there, but remember to stick to the parameters of the assignment.

Start with a trial program, and expect to change the details as you go.

Then when the person doesn't turn out to be who they thought he or she was, they start thinking "Maybe I can change him or her".

This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies which get bigger over time.

Usually they start by giving a survey to figure out what style a student favors, like visual or verbal learning.

We have to start being good now.

While the efforts are certainly not futile, the results of such bans will likely only start to be seen by generations down the line, bettering the world for the future.

Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

开始(做某事)

If you start to do something, you do something that you were not doing before and you continue doing it.

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V-ERG

(使)开始;(使)发生

When something starts, or if someone starts it, it takes place from a particular time.

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VERB

(从…)开始;(从…)着手

If you start by doing something, or if you start with something, you do that thing first in a series of actions.

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VERB

第一份工作是…

You use start to say what someone's first job was. For example, if their first job was that of a factory worker, you can say that they started as a factory worker.

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VERB

开办;创办

When someone starts something such as a new business, they create it or cause it to begin.

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V-ERG

开动，发动(发动机、汽车、机器等)

If you start an engine, car, or machine, or if it starts, it begins to work.

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VERB

惊起;吓一跳;激灵

If you start, your body suddenly moves slightly as a result of surprise or fear.

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PHRASE

首先;第一

You use for a start or to start with to introduce the first of a number of things or reasons that you want to mention or could mention.

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PHRASE

开*顺利/开*不顺

If you get off to a good start, you are successful in the early stages of doing something. If you get off to a bad start, you are not successful in the early stages of doing something.

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PHRASE

(事情、过程等)开始时，一开始

To start with means at the very first stage of an event or process.

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英汉词典释义

n.

开始; 开端; 出发

起点, 出发点

抢先之量; 先走[跑]之时[距离]

吃惊, 惊起

动身，启程

出发信号；起跑信号

开始阶段；开始时间

跳起；惊跳

开动，发动，启动

vt. & vi.

开始

出发; 启程

vt.

开办; 创办

使开始，开始做(某事)

起动，开动，发动

使产生；帮助…的发展(或生长)

提出(问题)，提议

使参赛，使上场

为…开发令*(或起跑信号)

vi.

突然出现，呈现；突然活动(或升起、跳跃等)

突然跳起，蹦起

吃惊，吓了一跳

突然涌出，冒出

开始立业，开始从事工作

起始，起头(常与at， with连用)

参加比赛，上场

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the beginning of anything;

2. the time at which something is supposed to begin;

3. a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning);

4. a sudden involuntary movement;

5. the act of starting something;

6. a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

7. a signal to begin (as in a race);

8. advantage gained by an early start as in a race;

Verb

1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action;

2. set in motion, cause to start;

3. leave;

4. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense;

5. bring into being;

6. get off the ground;

7. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm;

8. get going or set in motion;

9. begin or set in motion;

10. begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job;

11. play in the starting line-up

12. have a beginning characterized in some specified way;

13. begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object;

行业词典

机械： 起动；使某部分机构开始运动的动作。；

电力： 滑参数启停；startup and shutdown with variable parameters；启动流量；start-up flow rate；启动压力；start-up pressure；启动中子源；start-up neutron source；启动系统；start-up system；机组启动曲线；start-up curve of generating unit；启动操作；start-up operation；