| 单词 | start |
| 释义 | start (stɑːʳt ) Word forms: starts , starting , started 1. verb A1 If you start to do something, you do something that you were not doing before and you continue doing it. John then unlocked the front door and I started to follow him up the stairs. [VERB to-infinitive] It was 1956 when Susanna started the work on the garden. [VERB noun/verb-ing] She started cleaning the kitchen. [VERB noun/verb-ing] Synonyms: set about, begin, proceed, embark upon Start is also a noun. After several starts, she read the report properly. 2. verb A1 When something starts, or if someone starts it, it takes place from a particular time. The fire is thought to have started in an upstairs room. [VERB preposition] The Great War started in August of that year. [VERB preposition] Trains start at 11.00 and an hourly service will operate until 16.00. [VERB preposition] All of the passengers started the day with a swim. [VERB noun] Synonyms: begin, arise, originate, issue Start is also a noun. ...1918, four years after the start of the Great War. [+ of] She demanded to know why she had not been told from the start. 3. verb A1 If you start by doing something, or if you start with something, you do that thing first in a series of actions. I started by asking about day-care centers. [VERB + by] He started with a good holiday in Key West, Florida. [VERB + with] 4. verb B1 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. Betty started as a shipping clerk at the clothes factory. [VERB + as] Grace Robertson started as a photographer with Picture Post in 1947. [V as n] Start off means the same as start. Mr. Dambar had started off as an assistant to Mrs. Spear's husband. [VERB PARTICLE + as] 5. verb B2 When someone starts something such as a new business, they create it or cause it to begin. He has started a health centre and is looking for staff. [VERB noun] Now is probably as good a time as any to start a business. [VERB noun] Synonyms: establish, begin, found, father Start up means the same as start. The cost of starting up a day care center for children ranges from $150,000 to $300,000. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He said what a good idea it would be to start a community magazine up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 6. See also start-up 7. verb B2 If you start an engine, car, or machine, or if it starts, it begins to work. He started the car, which hummed smoothly. [VERB noun] We were just passing one of the parking bays when a car's engine started. [VERB] Synonyms: start up, activate, get something going, fire up Start up means the same as start. He waited until they went inside the building before starting up the car and driving off. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Put the key in the ignition and turn it to start the car up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] The engine of the seaplane started up. [VERB PARTICLE] 8. verb If you start, your body suddenly moves slightly as a result of surprise or fear. She put the bottle on the table, banging it down hard. He started at the sound. [VERB] Rachel started forward on the sofa.–'You mean you've arrested Pete?' [VERB adverb] Start is also a noun. Sylvia woke with a start. He gave a start of surprise and astonishment. 9. See also head start, false start 10. for a start/to start with phrase B2 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. You must get her name and address, and that can be a problem for a start. It comes as a surprise to be reminded that he is 70. For a start, he doesn't look it. To start with, where and when did it happen? 11. get off to a good/bad start phrase B2 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. The new Prime Minister has got off to a good start, but he still has to demonstrate what manner of leader he is going to be. England got off to a bad start in the Championship. 12. to start with phrase B2 To start with means at the very first stage of an event or process. To start with, the pressure on her was very heavy, but it's eased off a bit now. Success was assured and, at least to start with, the system operated smoothly. 13. in fits and starts phrase Something that happens in fits and starts or by fits and starts keeps happening and then stopping again. My slimming attempts tend to go in fits and starts. Military technology advances by fits and starts. 14. to get off to a flying start phrase If someone or something gets off to a flying start, or makes a flying start, they start very well, for example in a race or a new job. Advertising revenue in the new financial year has got off to a flying start. Hendry made a flying start to the final. Phrasal verbs: start off 1. phrasal verb B1+ If you start off by doing something, you do it as the first part of an activity. She started off by accusing him of blackmail but he more or less ignored her. [V P + by] He started off playing piano background music for silent films. [VERB PARTICLE verb-ing] 2. phrasal verb To start someone off means to cause them to begin doing something. Her mother started her off acting in children's theatre. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb To start something off means to cause it to begin. He became more aware of the things that started that tension off. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Best results are obtained by starting the plants off in a warm greenhouse. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 4. start [sense 4] start on phrasal verb B2 If you start on something that needs to be done, you start dealing with it. No need for you to start on the washing-up yet. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He has not finished his drama, in fact, he has not started on it. [VERB PARTICLE noun] start out 1. phrasal verb If someone or something starts out as a particular thing, they are that thing at the beginning although they change later. Daly was a fast-talking Irish-American who had started out as a salesman. [VERB PARTICLE + as] What started out as fun quickly became hard work. [VERB PARTICLE + as] 2. phrasal verb If you start out by doing something, you do it at the beginning of an activity. We started out by looking at ways in which big projects could be financed by the private sector. [V P + by] The child'll start out by making relatively few distinctions in the language. [V P by -ing] start over phrasal verb If you start over or start something over, you begin something again from the beginning. [mainly US] ...moving the kids to some other schools, closing them down and starting over with a new staff. [VERB PARTICLE] It's just not enough money to start life over. [VERB noun PARTICLE] start up Idioms: start a hare [British] to introduce a new idea or topic which other people become interested in Some work needs to be done before the connection is proved. But Mr Birchall has started a hare that many researchers will be watching. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers start off on the right foot to immediately have success when you begin to do something To me this was a man who was prepared to start off on the right foot; he was mature with some common sense. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers start from scratch to create something completely new, rather than adding to something that already exists She moved to a strange place where she had to make new friends and start a new life from scratch. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers start with a clean sheet to be allowed to forget previous debts or mistakes, and so be given a new chance to succeed at something The Christmas break has erased unhappy memories and allowed the Government to start the new year with a clean sheet. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: very start I knew that from the very start, playing with him. Times, Sunday Times It's the hard work he put in from the very start. The Sun He told me at the very start that he wanted to be involved in everything, he wanted to mentor the youngsters. Times, Sunday Times Disingenuous clues, present from the very start, will eventually join up to became unifying threads. The Times Literary Supplement I also knew from the very start of our time together that a sense of humour was not something we were going to share. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 开始, 开始, 开始 Japanese: 開始, 始める, 始まる |
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