Start

(noun.) a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning); 'he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital'; 'his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen'.

(noun.) the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race); 'with an hour's start he will be hard to catch'.

(noun.) the beginning of anything; 'it was off to a good start'.

(noun.) a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game.

(verb.) play in the starting lineup.

(verb.) get off the ground; 'Who started this company?'; 'We embarked on an exciting enterprise'; 'I start my day with a good breakfast'; 'We began the new semester'; 'The afternoon session begins at 4 PM'; 'The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack'.

(verb.) get going or set in motion; 'We simply could not start the engine'; 'start up the computer'.

(verb.) begin or set in motion; 'I start at eight in the morning'; 'Ready, set, go!'.

(verb.) bulge outward; 'His eyes popped'.

(verb.) begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job; 'Take up a position'; 'start a new job'.

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• I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• We fought in Segovia at the start of the movement but we were beaten and we ran. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• When this road was finished the offensive would start. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Start with your motive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He laughed at Mistress Affery's start and cry; and as he laughed, his moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Moreover, and what was the heaviest blow of all, he had time, thus unmolested, to get a good start. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But if we take this route, all we do must be done whilst the rations we start with hold out. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I started, but was only discomposed a moment; I knew the voice and speaker. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Will started up from his chair and reached his hat. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He kissed Amy as she started up to meet him, nodded to Fanny, nodded to his father, gloomed on the visitor without further recognition, and sat down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She started to look around. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The next morning Early started on his march to the capital of the Nation, arriving before it on the 11th. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• So on the following day they started north along the shore. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It ended in my moving into the house next Lady-day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Sam put a few necessaries in a carpet-bag, and was ready for starting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But the incident is an admirable starting-point for an investigation. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I know because I've felt it starting to go three times now and I've held it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I wish they would come right now because the leg is starting to hurt now. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• My eyes were bloodshot, starting from my head; every artery beat, methought, audibly, every muscle throbbed, each single nerve felt. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• No, he said, it starts soon now. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Mrs. Rouncewell, who holds the light, is giddy with the swiftness of his eyes and hands as he starts up, furnished for his journey. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He starts at chance noises as inveterately as Laura herself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It would seem, Adeimantus, that the direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I do not blow the bridge until the attack starts. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• And these involuntary starts of fancy were, after all, but the setting of a picture in which three people kept before him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It starts now, he said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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