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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You think we ought to break up this life, just start and let fly?"
-- "You've got to start with material things," said Gerald.
-- What then, when you've made a real fair start with your material things?"
-- Sometimes Gudrun would start aside, see it all, see how she was sinking in.
-- But yet, she had got Birkin back again into her world!How subtle her influence was, she seemed to start his irritable attention into her direction exclusively, in one minute.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was Heathcliff, by himself: it gave me a start to see him alone.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon, however, he saw that our party had the start of him; and Ben Gunn, being fleet of foot, had been dispatched in front to do his best alone.
-- Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: "Pieces of eight!Pieces of eight!"
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