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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us go, Edward; let us start off and search for Captain Grant!"
-- The custom of the muleteers is to start immediately after breakfast, about eight o'clock, and not to stop till they camp for the night, about 4 P. M. Glenarvan fell in with the practice, and the first halt was just as they arrived at Arauco, situated at the very extremity of the bay.
-- "Oh, very well; if mares and sheep and oxen can go that way, we can, so let's start at once."
-- All of a sudden a violent crash made him start to his feet.
-- McNabbs hesitated now no longer, but, acting on the advice of the rest, told his cousin that start they must, for all their lives depended on prompt action.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if we take this as a working hypothesis we have a fresh basis from which to start our construction of this unknown visitor.'
-- Obviously at the moment when Dr. Mortimer with-drew from the service of the hospital in order to start in practice for himself.
-- It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.
-- Then he dashed in wild pursuit amid the stream of the traffic, but the start was too great, and already the cab was out of sight.
-- The soon-er we start the better, as the fellow may put out his light and be off.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation.
-- Why, you can command a situation at thirty-five roubles per month to start with.
-- Suddenly tears start to our eyes, our hands shake; we weep, we embrace the battle is one of self-sacrifice now!The prince shouts, 'She is yours;' I cry, 'She is yours ' in a word, in a word You've come to live with us, hey?'
-- Well, I shall be spared such a hard be-ginning, and shall start with a little capital.
-- At sunset, on a lovely summer's evening, my little old woman passes away a thought, you will notice, which offers much food for reflection and behold!instead of tears and prayers to start her on her last journey, she has insults and jeers from a young ensign, who stands before her with his hands in his pockets, making a terrible row about a soup tureen!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There seems to be another pair in front now, and another driver; those that led off at the start must have been disabled out on the plain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- Then sud-denly traversing a little glade, I saw with an unpleasant start two clumsy legs among the trees, walking with noise-less footsteps parallel with my course, and perhaps thirty yards away from me.
-- 'We did not think you would start to explore this island of ours without telling us,' he said; and then, 'I was afraid But what Hullo!'
-- It is possibly due to the tension of my mind, at the time, but even now that start into the hot stillness of the tropi- cal afternoon is a singularly vivid impression.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead mon-keys where the Jungle-People could see them.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At midnight we'll start out again, for at dawn tomorrow we must be at the Field of Wonders."
-- Oh, if I could start all over again!But what is done can't be undone, and I must be patient!"
-- "And to think you did not want to come!To think that even yesterday the idea came into your head to return home to see your Fairy and to start studying again!If today you are free from pencils and books and school, you owe it to me, to my advice, to my care.
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