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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are not about to start on a squirrel hunt, or to drive a deer into the Horican, but to outlie for days and nights, and to stretch across a wilderness where the feet of men seldom go, and where no bookish knowledge would carry you through harmless.
-- The scout applied his fingers to his mouth, and raised a low hissing sound, that caused Duncan at first to start aside, believing that he heard a serpent.
-- The sudden and terrible interruption caused Duncan to start from his seat, uncon-scious of everything but the effect produced by so frightful a cry.
-- The eyeballs of the Delaware seemed to start from their sockets; his mouth opened and his whole form became fro-zen in an attitude of amazement.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She's willing to forget everything that's happened and start afresh.
-- I gave up my small apartment, sold my few belongings, and resolved to start afresh.
-- Why don't you go down to Italy and start working?"
-- It was impossible to start at so late an hour, and so it was not till next day soon after dawn that he set out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As for me," said the sailor, "if I ever grumble at work, my name's not Jack Pencroft, and if you like, captain, we will make a little America of this island!We will build towns, we will establish railways, start telegraphs, and one fine day, when it is quite changed, quite put in order and quite civilized, we will go and offer it to the government of the Union.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said at length, in a voice, and with a suddenness, which made the child start as though a gun had been fired off at her ear.
-- Nor was this the only start Mr Swiveller had of the market-gardener, for determining to show the family what quality of man they trifled with, and influenced perhaps by his late libations, he performed such feats of agility and such spins and twirls as filled the company with astonishment, and in particular caused a very long gentleman who was dancing with a very short scholar, to stand quite transfixed by wonder and admiration.
-- 'I only wanted to say that we must be off early to-morrow morning, my dear, because unless we get the start of the dogs and the conjuror, the villages won't be worth a penny.
-- With more kisses, and hugs, and tears, than many young gentlemen who start upon their travels, and leave well-stocked homes behind them, would deem within the bounds of probability (if matter so low could be herein set down), Kit left the house at an early hour next morning, and set out to walk to Finchley; feeling a sufficient pride in his appearance to have warranted his excommunication from Little Bethel from that time forth, if he had ever been one of that mournful congregation.
-- At last, sleep gradually stole upon her a broken, fitful sleep, troubled by dreams of falling from high towers, and waking with a start and in great terror.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For about two minutes she sat motionless, then raised her eyes, smiled, reproachfully shook her head, at herself apparently, and, changing her position, with a start placed both hands on the table and fixed her eyes before her.
-- The passenger train which was to carry away Nekhludoff was to start in two hours.
-- From the cells in which those condemned to hard labor were imprisoned, they passed over to the cells of the exiles, and finally those in which the relatives who escorted the prisoners to Siberia were awaiting the day appointed to start hence.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now.
-- Sitting by the side of these wells, and peering down into the shafted darkness, I could see no gleam of water, nor could I start any reflection with a lighted match.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, there was the hill full in sight, so there was nothing to be done but start again.
-- 'In that case we start fresh,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'and it's my turn to choose a subject ' ('He talks about it just as if it was a game!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tomorrow I start for Bristol.
-- The crews raced for the beach, but the boat I was in, having some start and being at once the lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her consort, and the bow had struck among the shore-side trees and I had caught a branch and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind.
-- The doctor himself is gone dead again you 'ungrateful scamp' was what he said; and the short and the long of the whole story is about here: you can't go back to your own lot, for they won't have you; and without you start a third ship's company all by yourself, which might be lonely, you'll have to jine with Cap'n Silver."
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