| 词汇 | started |
| 释义 | started past simple and past participle ofstart start verb uk /stɑːt/ us /stɑːrt/ startverb (BEGIN)A1[ I or T ] to begin doing something: 开始;着手 When do you start your course/your new job?你什么时候开始你的课程／新工作？ We'll be starting (the session) at six o'clock.我们将在6点钟开始（议程）。 Can you start (= begin a new job) on Monday?星期一你能开始工作吗？ [ + -ing verb ]They started building the house in January.他们1月份动工盖这所房子。 [ + to infinitive ]I'd just started to write a letter when the phone rang.我刚开始写信，电话铃就响了。 to start to do something beginI'll begin working on the project this weekend. startHave you started your homework yet? commenceWe commenced listening to Uncle Jim's long story, knowing we were in for it now. embark on/upon somethingThat fateful morning, she embarked upon the longest solo climb in history. enter on/upon somethingWith his diagnosis, we entered upon the most difficult time of our lives. B2[ I or T ](alsostart up) If a business or other organization starts, or if someone starts one, it is created and starts to operate: （企业或其他机构）开业，开始运营;创办，开办 She started her own software company.她创办了自己的软件公司。 A lot of new restaurants have started up in the region.这个地区有很多家新餐馆开业。 to create and operate a business, organization, etc. startI always wanted to start my own business. start (something) up It is more attractive to start up a new enterprise than to invest in existing firms. set something upWe plan on setting up a new manufacturing company at the beginning of next fiscal year. set up shopAfter retiring, he set up shop repairing classic cars. hang (out) a/your shingleUS Once she graduates from medical school, she plans on hanging out a shingle as a family doctor in private practice. B1[ I or T ] to begin to happen or to make something begin to happen: （使）发生；（使）开始 A new series about wildlife has started on Monday nights.一档新的野生动物节目已开始在每周一晚上播出。 Police believe the fire was started by arsonists.警方认为这起火灾是有人蓄意纵火。 to begin to (make something) happen startHurry up – the film has already started. beginThe ceremony is about to begin. commenceThe meeting commenced with a moment of silence. openThe meeting opened with a short word of welcome to new members. originateThe idea for the business originated with my grandmother's recipes. A1[ I or T ] to begin a set of activities with the thing or person mentioned: （从…）开始 start withThe speaker started with a description of her journey to China.讲演者讲述了她的中国之行作为开场白。 Give me your answers one by one, starting with Lucy.请一个接一个地回答我的问题，从露西开始。 start byYou could start by weeding the flowerbeds.你开始时可以先给花坛除草。 start something as somethingHe started his working life as an engineer but later became a teacher.他刚开始工作时是工程师，但后来做了老师。 [ I ]informal to begin to complain or be annoying in some way: 开始抱怨;开始惹人厌烦 Don't start with me - we're not going and that's that!别烦人——我们不去，没的商量！ don't get someone startedinformal"It would help if Richard did some work." "Oh, don't get me started on Richard!"“如果理查德做了些工作就好了。”“噢，别提理查德了，说起来我就生气！” get started to begin: 开始 When can we get started?我们什么时候能开始？ start a family to have your first child: 生育第一个孩子 At that point, we were thinking of starting a family. start afresh (US alsostart fresh) to begin to live in a different way or do things differently: A new house gives you the chance to start afresh. start something to begin an argument or a fight: 挑起争论（或打斗） You could tell the guy wanted to start something, so we just walked away.看得出这个家伙想挑事，于是我们就走开了。 start work to begin being employed: 开始上班;参加工作 He started work at 16 in a bakery.他16岁开始在当地的一家面包房干活。 to start with B2 at the beginning, or as the first of several things: 最初，一开始;首先 We only knew two people in Montreal to start with, but we soon made friends.起初我们在蒙特利尔只认识两个人，但很快就交到了朋友。 He started as an actor, making his debut as a director in 1990.他一开始时做演员，1990年首次当导演。 As soon as the war started, any broadcasts with a military theme were taken off the air.战争一爆发，所有有关军事主题的节目都停止播出了。 People have started to gossip about us.人们已经开始说我们的闲话了。 The party had hardly started when she left.她离开的时候聚会才刚刚开始。 Halfway through the meeting my mind started to wander.会开到一半时我就开始走神了。 Starting and beginning be in the first flush ofidiom be/get in on the ground flooridiom become begin branch out develop grow half-cock here here goes!idiom hit the ground runningidiom motion sail in start (something) off start on something start out start/set/get the ball rollingidiom starting the ground floor wheel You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Success & failure in business Causing things to happen Complaining startverb (FIRST POINT)[ Iusually+ adv/prep ] to begin at one point and then move to another, in distance or range: 出发;动身，启程;开始，（自…）起 start at/fromThe run starts at/from the entrance to the park.跑步活动的出发地点是公园大门口。 start (off/out)We'll need to start (off/out) early because the journey takes six hours.我们需要早点儿出发，因为路上需要6个小时。 start at the beginningTell me what happened - start at the beginning.告诉我发生了什么事——从头说起。 Ticket prices start at/from €80 and go up to €500.票价80欧元起，最高500欧元。 Departing abandon abandon ship abandonment absquatulate backward gone move outgoing p.o.q. peel away/off piss off pull pull out pull something off sea turf something out vacate vamoose walk walk off (somewhere) startverb (MOVE SUDDENLY)[ I ] to move your body suddenly because something has surprised or frightened you: 突然一惊;吓一跳 start atHe started at the sound of the phone.电话铃声把他吓了一跳。 Making short, sudden movements aquiver chatter choppily choppiness convulse convulsion jar jerk jerkily jerkiness jerky quake quiver recoil shaky shook shudder squirm toss whip You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Surprised startverb (WORK)B2[ I or T ](alsostart up) to (cause to) begin to work or operate: （使）开始工作;开动，启动 I'm having trouble starting the car.我的车发动不起来。 The engine won't start.发动机启动不了。 Machines - Functioning action actuator deactivation faultily faulty fire someone up function as something/someone functionally light operative peg peg out play something up power (something) up refire reset road run tick working GrammarBegin or start? We can use the verbs begin and start to mean the same thing but begin is more formal than start. Begin is an irregular verb. Its past simple form is began and its -ed form is begun: … Phrasal verbsstart again start (something) off start someone off start on something start on at someone start out start over start (something) up Examples of startedstarted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Then everything suddenly got much more complicated, as researchers started coming up with new theoretical and methodological bases for language teaching. At this point, things started to fall into place. Because my research started out by locating sufficient conditions for stability in heterogeneous capital goods models, and that problem still fascinates me to this day. Four children under 5 years have started visiting the dentist, but the remaining ten in this age group are still too young. If the rehearsal hadn't started up again, perhaps he might have added others. He clearly found running the shrine very stressful: he lost weight and his hair started to fall out. All had been started on infusions of prostaglandin in the referring hospital prior to transfer to this center. Random matrix history started in the physics of heavy atoms and multivariate statistics. The numerical integration is started at the singular point r = 0 by using asymptotic expression of the solutions. They generally started as small-scale traders and gradually enlarged the scale of their operations. The abscess was drained and antibiotic therapy was started. The integration must be started from the downstream singular point and this guarantees the existence of a unique solution. The motion thus started continued downstream in the form of a pair of trailing vortices. They started to act as self-conscious actors in the local arenas and, maybe even more important, they were recognised as such by locals and non-locals. Hence, he started to carry out research that could be applied to such environmental problems as degradation of monuments due to atmospheric pollution. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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