start
美 [stɑrt] 
英 [stɑː(r)t]
词形变化
第三人称单数：starts 现在分词：starting 过去式：started 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
做事doing sth
1. | [t][i] 开始，着手，动手（做或使用）to begin doing or using sth |
| I start work at nine. 我每天九点开始工作。 |
| He's just started a new job. 他刚刚着手一项新工作。 |
| I only started(= began to read) this book yesterday. 我昨天才开始看这本书。 |
| We need to start(= begin using) a new jar of coffee. 我们得新开一罐咖啡了。 |
| The kids start school next week. 孩子们下星期开学。 |
| It started to rain. 下起雨来了。 |
| Mistakes were starting to creep in. 不知不觉间，开始出错了。 |
| She started laughing. 她笑了起来。 |
| It's a long story. Where shall I start? 说来话长。我该从哪儿说起呢？ |
| It's time you started on your homework. 你该做功课了。 |
| Can you start(= a new job) on Monday? 你可以星期一就来上班吗？ |
| Let's start by reviewing what we did last week. 我们开始先来复习一下上星期学的内容。 |
| The best professional musicians start young . 卓有成就的音乐家很早就接触音乐。 |
发生happening
2. | [i][t] （使）发生，开始进行to start happening; to make sth start happening |
| When does the class start? 什么时候上课？ |
| Have you any idea where the rumour started? 你知不知道谣言是从哪儿传出来的？ |
| Who started the fire? 谁放的火？ |
| Do you start the day with a good breakfast? 你早晨起来会先好好吃一顿早饭吗？ |
| You're always trying to start an argument. 你总是想挑起争论。 |
| The news started me thinking. 那条消息让我思考起来。 |
机器；车辆machine/vehicle
3. | [t][i] ~ (sth) 开动；发动；启动when youstart a machine or a vehicle or itstarts , it begins to operate |
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| I can't get the car started. 这辆车我发动不起来。 |
| The car won't start. 这辆车发动不起来。 |
存在existing
4. | [i][t] （使）出现；发起；创办；开办to begin to exist; to make sth begin to exist |
| There are a lot of small businesses starting up in that area. 小型企业在那一地区大量涌现。 |
| They decided to start a catering business. 他们决定开办一家酒席承办公司。 |
旅行journey
5. | [i] ~ (out) 出发；动身；起程to begin a journey; to leave |
| What time are we starting tomorrow? 我们明天什么时候出发？ |
走going/walking
6. | [i] + adv./prep. 起身走向；向…而去to begin to move in a particular direction |
| I started after her(= began to follow her) to tell her the news. 我起身朝她追去，好把消息告诉她。 |
| He started for the door, but I blocked his way. 他向门口走去，但我挡住了他的去路。 |
方式；地方；层次in particular way/from place/level
7. | [i][t] 以…起步（或起家）；起初是to begin, or to begin sth such as a career, in a particular way that changed later |
| She started as a secretary but ended up running the department. 她起初只是一个秘书，但最后掌管起了整个部门。 |
| The company started out with 30 employees. 公司创业之初只有 30 名员工。 |
| He started life as a teacher before turning to journalism. 他开始当过教师，后来改行搞起了新闻。 |
8. | [i] + adv./prep. （从…）开始；（由…）起to begin from a particular place, amount or situation |
| The trail starts just outside the town. 小径从刚出城的地方开始。 |
| Hotel prices start at €50 a night for a double room. 旅馆的双人房间一宿 50 欧元起价。 |
| The evening started badly when the speaker failed to turn up. 那天晚上的活动一开始挺糟糕，因为演讲者没有来。 |
突然一动move suddenly
9. | [i] 突然一惊to move suddenly and quickly because you are surprised or afraid |
| The sudden noise made her start. 突如其来的声音吓了她一跳。 |
开始beginning
1. | [c][ususing] 开头；开端the point at which sth begins |
| a perfect start to the day 那一天的美好开端 |
| Things didn't look too hopeful at the start of the year. 在年初，情况显得并不十分乐观。 |
| The meeting got off to a good/bad start(= started well/badly) . 会议有一个良好的╱糟糕的开端。 |
| The trip was a disaster from start to finish . 那次旅行从头到尾糟糕透顶。 |
| We've had problems (right) from the start . 我们从（一）开始就遇到了困难。 |
| This could be the start of something big. 这或许是要有大事的苗头。 |
2. | [sing] 开始the act or process of beginning sth |
| I'll paint the ceiling if you make a start on the walls. 你要是动手刷墙，我就刷天花板吧。 |
| I want to make an early start in the morning. 我想早上早点儿出发。 |
| She's moving abroad to make a fresh start(= to begin a new life) . 她要移居国外，开始新的生活。 |
机会opportunity
3. | [c][ususing] 起始优势；良好的基础条件the opportunity that you are given to begin sth in a successful way |
| They worked hard to give their children a good start in life . 他们力争为孩子们的人生奠定一个良好的基础。 |
| The job gave him his start in journalism. 那份工作是他加入新闻界的开始。 |
比赛in race
4. | [sing] 起点the place where a race begins |
| The runners lined up at the start. 赛跑运动员在起跑线上一字排开。 |
5. | [c][ususing] 起点优势（时间或距离）an amount of time or distance that sb has as an advantage over other people at the beginning of a race |
| She went into the second round with a five-minute start on the rest of the cyclists. 她进入了第二轮时，比其他自行车选手领先五分钟。 |
| I gave the younger children a start. 我让年幼的孩子提前起跑。 |
6. | [c][usupl] （参加的）比赛a race or competition that sb has taken part in |
| She has been beaten only once in six starts. 她参加了六次比赛，只败过一次。 |
突然一动sudden movement
7. | [c][ususing] 突然一惊an act of moving your body quickly and suddenly because you are surprised, afraid, etc. |
| She woke from the dream with a start . 她猛地一惊，从梦中醒来。 |
| You gave me quite a start! 你吓了我一大跳！ |
习惯用语
dont (you) start
（制止某人抱怨或挑剔）别抱怨，别挑剔used to tell sb not to complain or be critical
| Don't start! I told you I'd be late. 别抱怨啦！我跟你说过我要迟到的。 |
get started
（使）开始；着手；动手to begin doing sth
| It's nearly ten o'clock. Let's get started. 快十点了，咱们开始吧。 |
you, he, she, etc. started it
是你（或他、她等）挑起来的you, he, she, etc. began a fight or an argument
| ‘Stop fighting, you two!’ ‘He started it!’ “你们俩，别打了！”“是他先动手的！” |
start something
制造麻烦；惹是生非to cause trouble
to start with
（给出首要理由）首先，第一used when you are giving the first and most important reason for sth
| To start with it's much too expensive… 首先是太贵… |
| The club had only six members to start with. 这家俱乐部起初仅有六名会员。 |
| I'll have melon to start with. 我要先吃甜瓜。 |
| She wasn't keen on the idea to start with. 她一开始并不喜欢这个主意。 |
for a start
（强调一系列理由、意见等的第一条）首先used to emphasize the first of a list of reasons, opinions, etc.
| I'm not working there─for a start, it's too far to travel. 我不去那边干活儿。首先，路太远，去不了。 |
英汉解释
v. | 14. 使出发,使动身,对(比赛者)发出起跑等信号,使参加比赛 |
n. | 3. (赛跑的)起跑(点);起跑信号;先跑权,优先地位,有利条件 |
abbr. | 1. (=Strategic Arms Reduction Talks)战略武器削减谈判 |
英英解释
例句
My advances must be halted. You start with that, my ready salted. . . -But, we need the crisps out! Is that too much to ask?
我们必须停下来，你从薯片开始，我的咸薯片…但是，我要我的薯片出来，这是很过份的要求么？
To do not consciously think of an important decision on behalf of you feel that they have a need to start to the next stage.
不自觉地想起要做的一个重要决定，代表你感觉到自己有需要起动到下一个阶段。
Mr. Murdoch said the Daily will eventually roll out on all tablets but that Apple has a head start in the category.
默多克说，TheDaily最终将会推广至所有的平板产品，但苹果在这一领域是领军者。
Start the walk early in the morning and have warm clothes and sunscreen with you - it might be very sunny yet chilly.
早上早点出发，带上保暖的衣服和防晒霜，那儿可能阳光明媚但也有些冷。
And with the price of pig meat up 38 percent in major cities since the start of the year, the government is about to open its floodgates.
随着今年以来主要城市猪肉价格上涨超过38%，政府正筹划“开闸放肉”。
When Sunday came, and it was time for the girl to start on her way, she became frightened, although she herself did not know exactly why.
星期日来临，到了女孩应该出发的时间，她开始害怕，尽管她并不知道为什么。
In other words, you have to start the app and hope that your town has at least a few active GasBuddy contributors to help you out.
换句话说，你只能打开软件并同时希望同一区域至少还有其他一些在线的GasBuddy用户能够给你提供帮助。
But he added the company tries to make it possible to be 'part of a start-up within Google.
但他补充道，谷歌正努力在公司内部营造一种初创企业的氛围。
That made him all the more motivated to get out of his bed, overcome the pain, and start taking his restorative long walks again.
这是最让他无法在床上躺下去的原因，忍着疼痛，他又开始了恢复性的长距离散步。
"It suits me to start rather late, " he said in an interview with Todd McCormack. "I start at 10 o'clock and I stop at 12. Always. "
“我很适合很迟时开始工作”，他在一次采访时说到，“我10点开始工作，12结束，常常如此。”
Ready to live your life to its fullest potential? Start the four steps by becoming still. . .
做好充分生活的准备了吗？这四个步骤从静默开始…
You start in a street, move into a factory then end up in a castle.
先是在街头，再进入工厂，最后是在黑帮的城堡。
Registration is often just the start. Sometimes sex offenders are barred from living near places where children congregate.
登记在案通常只是开始，有时性罪犯还被禁止接近儿童聚集的场所。
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O Connor is in her 70s, and former surgeon general C. Everett Koop chairs an Internet start up in his 80s.
最高法院法官桑德拉·欧科纳70多岁，前外科医生协会总裁C·埃弗雷特·库普80来岁还主持了一个网站的起步工作。
If Jim and Mary are quarrelling already, it looks as if their marriage gets off to a bad start.
如果吉姆和玛丽已经在吵架了的话，这看起来他们的婚姻一开头就不顺利。
Somebody says: the holy spirit told me to start my own church, so I accept the bible and I start, is it a church?
有人说：圣灵告诉我去建立我自己的教会，所以我接受圣经且创办教会，这种教会是真的教会吗？
Never forget to turn off the lights of your car after you park, or you won't be able to start your car.
停车后千万不要忘记关上灯，否则你的车就启动不了。
After all, cheap coal plants are still fairly easy to start up in the country, she says.
敏茨说，毕竟在这个国家里，开几家投资不多的火力发电厂还是相当容易的。
It's a great opportunity, all too rare for a design firm, to be able to start with naming, and move on to identity design.
这是一个很好的机会，太罕见了设计公司，能够开始命名，并转移到形象设计。
With investors in Asia poised to start selling again in just a few hours, the ministers knew they needed to come up with a plan -- and fast.
当时远在千里之外的亚洲，投资者已做好准备，待几小时后市场开盘就再度抛出.欧洲财长们意识到，需要拿出一份计划--而且要快。
The doctors despaired of it from the start.
医生们从一开头就对它表示绝望。
Around 11 o'clock the crowds start filtering out of the cinema.
十一点左右，人群开始从电影院里逐渐走出来。
The American comes to with a start.
这个美国人大吃一惊醒悟过来。
At the start of World War I, he was serving aboard the light cruiser Dresden.
第一次世界大战爆发的时候，他正在“德累斯顿”号轻巡洋舰上服役。
After our bad start to the season we were always playing catch-up.
我们在赛季初表现不佳之后一直在努力追赶。
Who could say but that some last-minute gust of sentiment might not start a stampede for Whitelaw.
谁能保证人们在最后关头不会由于感情冲动而突然倒向怀特洛。
The computer programmer botched (up) the job and had to start over.
计算机程序设计员把文件弄坏了，只好重做。
Gerhard woke with a start some hours later.
几小时后，格哈特被惊醒了。
A cigarette thrown into the woods in dry weather may catch [start] a fire.
在干燥的天气里将点燃的香烟扔在树林里容易失火。
At this time the satellites got their start.
这时，卫星诞生了。
I'll start back and leave you to the hearing. It looks as if it will be quite a production.
我这就动身回去了，您一个人去参加听证会吧！看起来会有一场好戏。
You have to be prepared to start at the bottom and work your way up.
你得准备好从最基层干起，努力向上。
In contrast to the aerodynamic winged vehicle, a true ballistic missile is controlled for only a few minutes at the start of its flight.
与空气动力有翼导弹大不相同，一枚真正的弹道导弹只在起飞的几分钟内受人们控制。
I brought him in to help both sides lower their voices and start listening to each other.
我把他弄进来，就是想让他帮助使双方的情绪缓和下来，互相倾听对方的意见。
Tom Sawyer hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers.
汤姆·索亚又把我找到了，说他要组织一个强盗帮。
What I should like more than anything else would be to start a school in Oxford for teaching English to foreign students.
我最热衷的莫过于在牛津开办一所教外国学生学英语的学校了。
Then a coal slipped, the fire crackled and sent up a spurt of flame, and he woke with a start.
突然，煤块滑动了一下，火花爆裂，迸起无数火星，他猛地惊醒了。
A more conventional scheme might be to start with a ration of 1. 75kg for a 30 kg pig.
一种较通用的方案是猪从30公斤起开始饲喂1.75公斤的日粮。
When we got to the station the train had started. Then we had to drive to start after him.
我们赶到火车站时，火车已开走了。我们不得不开车去追赶他。
They bandied the ball from player to player while they waited the game to start.
他们在等比赛开始的时候把球在队员之间来回传递。
He's always had a burning ambition to start his own business.
他总是雄心勃勃地想自己创业。
The project will require very little work to start up; that's the beauty of it .
这项工程几乎不需要启动工作，好就好在这里。
He seemed incapable of understanding that intelligence, to be effective, has to be built into diplomacy from the start.
他似乎不能理解，情报工作如要成为一项有效的工作，从一开始就必须与外交融为一体。
She should start in a day or two for Rome.
她一两天内就启程前往罗马。
Through the same cold sunshine, and the same sharp wind, my Lady and Sir Leicester, in their travelling chariot start for home.
就在这样阴冷的阳光下，就在这样凛冽的寒风里，夫人和累斯特爵士，坐在长途旅行用的马车里正启程回家。
It gave him a great start.
这使他大惊失色。
You start messengers around the island to the fishers and farmers everywhere, even to the mountain goat hunters.
你去发动邮差，到岛上的各个角落去，通知渔民、农夫，甚至山里的牧羊人。
From the very start, the prospect of government-backed loans for Chrysler was opposed by just about everybody.
从一开始，由政府保证给予克莱斯勒汽车公司贷款的前景就遭到几乎每一个人的反对。
We start by considering the wave function, ignoring the antisymmetry requirement.
我们先考虑波函数，而暂不顾及它的反对称性要求。
When an employee arrives at a factory to start work, the first thing he does is to clock in.
职工每天到工厂上工，头一件事就是签到。
LINDA: We'll start next week - if I can find the script. I'll be with you in a minute, Rita.
琳达：如果我能找到脚本的话，我们将在下周开始。我马上就去找你，丽塔。
For a start, Iraq will still need military aid, no matter how much its government throws its weight around.
首先，无论伊政府多么盛气凌人，伊拉克仍将需要军事援助。
In the Tuscan countryside people start their day quite early, just before dawn, but wind down in the early afternoon for siesta.
在托斯卡乡村人们起身他们的白天很早，恰好黎明前，但是放松下来在提前的下午为了午睡。
When you're ready to take the next step or take on more responsibility, you should start doing your job at the next level.
当你准备走出下一步，或者准备承担更多责任时，你应该按照下一个更高阶段的要求开始工作。
But, Lelyveld writes, "South Africa . . . challenged him from the start to explain what he thought he was doing there in his brown skin. "
诚然，雷利维德补充道，“南非……从一开始就在挑战他这名有深棕色皮肤者的所思所想。”
For a start, they have left too much of the task of preventing overheating to monetary policy, pushing up the cost of credit.
首先，他们预留了太多伏笔防止经济过热蔓延至货币政策，提高贷款的成本。
Start with that, we're out of here. - Please don't spoil all this fun.
如果你再这样，我们就走了。对啊，请不要破坏这里的乐趣。
"I'm excited about Theo Walcott and I can't wait to start working with him, " said Sven Goran Eriksson after announcing his squad.
“我为沃尔科特而激动并等不及要开始和他一起工作了，”埃里克森周一宣布他的名单时如是说。
Her eyes start to be suffused with water smog, the whole body is numb and feeble to not go, blare, why her body ambition so acute?
她眼睛泛起水雾，全身酥麻得不行，呜，为什么她的身体会这么敏感？
For a start, doodling isn't really a rebellious act at all, at least not any more.
首先，涂鸦其实根本不是一种反叛行为，至少现在不再是。
Extensive Documentation giving both a Quick Start section and an in depth explanation of every aspect of the Tree Explorer.
广泛的文件给双方一个快速启动的第一个在作深入的解释的各个方面该树的总管。
But as you know to start with we'll have more difficulty with new product.
但是，您知道，刚一开始销售新产品，我们会有更多的困难。
"Once you start interacting with social media, you have to be ready to carry the work forward" , says Elbes of WHO.
“一旦开始与社会媒体的互动，你就必须准备好将这项工作发扬光大”，世卫组织的Elbes说。
"I guess we could hide in an underground parking garage if the shells start falling, " she said, "but we don't bother with escape plans. "
“我猜，如果炮弹开始落下，我们可以躲到地下停车场，”她说，“但我们不为逃生计划费心。”
Start the morning with real work rather than checking your Email; a good way is to leave something interesting in the last evening.
用实在的工作来开始每一天；一个好方法就是在前一天晚上留下一点有趣的工作。
They need to keep feeding Yao until the Suns take a timeout, figure it out and start fronting him with a double team again.
我们需要不停的给姚传球，知道太阳叫暂停，让们开用双人绕前防守。
He said the process to select a new Labour leader could start immediately.
他说，挑选新工党领袖的过程可以立即开始。
Clothing designed to be one of the centers of national activity, start at about this time.
服装设计成为国家活动的中心之一，大约开始于此时。
However, he could not start at once because he was on the point of flying to India where he would have no time to himself.
但是，他无法马上就着手开始，因为他正要飞往印度，在印度他就没有自己的时间了。
If someone came and sat down in front of me on the beach, I would probably move my towel next to them and start a conversation.
如果这海滩上有人走过来，在我面前坐下，我也许会把自己的毛巾移到他们旁边，开始和他们聊天。
Hang off the rope, let's start our boat.
松开缆绳，咱们开船吧。
"If you are betting on it, " Art said, "I'm willing to. When do we start? "
“如果你肯下赌注，”阿特说，“我也愿意。我们什么时候开始呢？”
The team will come through this barren patch and start to win again.
这个队将会在经历这段低潮时期之后再创佳绩。
How shall we start the meeting?
会议怎么开始？
You've made a bad start of it, but you'll make a better, have you had any meat?
你已经开了个头，虽然开始得很糟，总可以好起来的，吃过东西没有？
We'll start another summer vacation when July comes.
到了7月我们又该放暑假了。
The lecture won't start until every last person is seated.
直到每一个人就座以后，演讲才开始。
I'm about to start for London.
我就要动身去伦敦。
The workmen were slow in making a start.
工人们动手很慢。
Start that scene again and get it right this time!
重新开始表演那场戏，这次要正确无误！
