start是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 开始； 动身； 吃惊； 开办， 开动n. 开端； 惊起，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why in the name of gudgeons and ginger-cakes don't ye pull? pull and break something!pull, and start your eyes out!Here!"
-- Start her start her, my silver-spoons!Start her, marling-spikes!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He only cried bitterly all day; and, when the long, dismal night came on, spread his little hands before his eyes to shut out the darkness, and crouching in the corner, tried to sleep: ever and anon waking with a start and tremble, and drawing himself closer and closer to the wall, as if to feel even its cold hard surface were a protection in the gloom and loneliness which surrounded him.
-- Oliver knew not the cause of this sudden exclamation; for, not being strong enough to bear the start it gave him, he fainted away.
-- What a start that was!Better than any novel-book I ever see!'
-- 'Who would have thought it!Grind him to ashes!He'd start up from a stone coffin, to come in my way!'
-- How often did Oliver start from his bed that night, and stealing out, with noiseless footstep, to the staircase, listen for the slightest sound from the sick chamber!How often did a tremble shake his frame, and cold drops of terror start upon his brow, when a sudden trampling of feet caused him to fear that something too dreadful to think of, had even then occurred!And what had been the fervency of all the prayers he had ever muttered, compa red with those he poured forth, now, in the agony and passion of his supplication for the life and health of the gentle creature, who was tottering on the deep grave's verge!
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw him start at this, but he said nothing, and she continued: 'You could not have made the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER I - START IN LIFEI WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a for-eigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
-- Encouraging myself, therefore, with the belief that this was nothing but the print of one of my own feet, and that I might be truly said to start at my own shadow, I began to go abroad again, and went to my country house to milk my flock: but to see with what fear I went for-ward, how often I looked behind me, how I was ready every now and then to lay down my basket and run for my life, it would have made any one have thought I was haunted with an evil conscience, or that I had been lately most terribly frightened; and so, indeed, I had.
-- We waited a great while, though very impatient for their removing; and were very uneasy when, after long consultation, we saw them all start up and march down towards the sea; it seems they had such dreadful ap-prehensions of the danger of the place that they resolved to go on board the ship again, give their companions over for lost, and so go on with their intended voyage with the ship.
-- The fellow on shore was between sleeping and waking, and going to start up; the captain, who was foremost, ran in upon him, and knocked him down; and then called out to him in the boat to yield, or he was a dead man.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You just take this so, fasten it with this clamp, and start the machine."
-- "You'll not want to start before the races are over."
-- Now, when such little things, such as the proposed earlier start to Waukesha, came up, they made clear to him his position.
-- "Why do you want to start on that again?"
-- "If you ever cared for me at all, come along and let's start right.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respect-able.
-- Tom says: 'Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang.
-- I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to un-hitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water.
-- I was pretty hungry, but it warn't going to do for me to start a fire, because they might see the smoke.
-- I 'uz hungry, but I warn't afeard; bekase I knowed ole missus en de widder wuz goin' to start to de camp- meet'n' right arter breakfas' en be gone all day, en dey knows I goes off wid de cattle 'bout day-light, so dey wouldn' 'spec to see me roun' de place, en so dey wouldn' miss me tell arter dark in de evenin'.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not wishing to start an argument, Geppetto made believe he saw nothing and went on with his work.
-- "You are not yet finished, and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father.
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