| 释义 |
start (obj) BEGINHstB:t, $stB:rtvto begin (to do) (something)开始When do you start your course/your new job? [T]你什么时候开始上课/新工作?We want to start (the discussion session) at six o'clock. [I/T]我们想在6点开始（讨论）。Let's start--I want to finish this by lunchtime. [I]我们开始吧----我想在午餐前结束。Can you start (= begin a new job or begin to work for a new employer) on Monday? [I]你能在星期一开始工作吗?They started building the house in January. [+ v-ing]他们一月份开始造这所房子。I was starting to write a letter when the phone rang. [+ to infinitive]我刚开始写信，电话铃就响了。The class start (on) their exam course next week. [I/T]这班级下星期开始考试。(infml) To start (on) is to begin to complain or be annoying in some way.发牢骚He started on about the state of the roads. [I]他开始抱怨公路的路况。Don't start-- I've already told you why it's not possible. [I]别发牢骚----我早就告诉过你为什么这不可能。If you start afresh/(all over) again/(Am) over you stop doing something esp. before it is finished and begin to do it again, often in a different way.重新开始The agreement allows old expectations to be forgotten and everyone can start afresh. [I]这协议允许人们忘却旧的期望，每个人都能重新开始。We decided to abandon the first draft of the report and start all over again. [I]我们决定不采用这报告的初稿，全部重新开始。When can we get started (= begin)?我们什么时候能开始?He started work (= began being employed) at 16.他16岁时开始工作。To start with means at the beginning, or as the first of several things.首先，开始时We only knew two people in London to start with, but we soon made some friends.开始时我们在伦敦只认识两个人，但我们很快结识了些朋友。I can't come--to start with my car is being repaired, but I've also got another meeting that day.我不能来了----首先我的汽车正在修理，而且我那天还有另外一个会议。[for starters]“I've started so I'll finish” (phrase from the British television quiz show Mastermind said by Magnus Magnusson, 1972-)“既然我已开始，那么我便会完成”（出自英国电视智力测验节目“策划者”）
|