【start音标】 英[stɑ:t] 美[stɑ:rt]
【单词释义】 start是什么意思：
n.开始；动身；开动；起点
v.出发，启程；起动，发动；提出（问题）；开办；使开始；起始；突然出现；突然跳起；突然涌出
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] starts [第三人称单数] starts
[单词现在分词] starting
[单词过去式] started
[单词过去分词] started
【start形近词/近似词】
tart adj.（味道）酸的；（答复或评论）尖酸的，刻薄的 vt.将某人打扮得妖艳
upstart n.暴发户；自命不凡的人；傲慢自负的人 adj.暴富的；自命不凡的
【常用短语】
from start to finish 自始至终；从起点到终点
start from scratch 从头开始；白手起家
【近义词解析】
◇ 开始
begin (v. 开始)：最常用词，指为某一过程或进程开个头，常可与 start 换用。
start (v. 开始)：指动作开始且持续下去，强调开始这一事实。
commence ([六级/考研]v.开始，着手)：指开始某种正式行动，常伴有正式程序或一定的仪式，语气庄重。
【单词例句】
◇ The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Winter, the 19th solar term of the year, begins this year on Nov 8 and ends on Nov 21.
中国传统二十四节气的第19个节气是立冬，今年的立冬从11月8日开始，11月21日结束。
---- Start of Winter
◇ If you are interviewing candidates, try screening for applicants whose response most closely matches number four. And if you are interviewing for a job do your homework and try answering the "So why do you want to work here?" question as close as you can to number four and be ready when the interviewer says, "How much salary do you need and when can you start?"
如果你正在面试求职者，试着挑选出回答最接近第四种的人。如果你正在面试找工作，先做好功课，尽可能按照第四种答案去回答，然后做好准备，回答面试者“想要多少薪水？何时能入职？”的问题。
---- Why do you want to work here?
◇ Before long, he started his own bakery and lived a better life.
不久，他就开了自己的面包店，过上了稍好一点的生活。
---- Immigrate to America
◇ Our translator paid for the admission, and we started enjoying the various attractions in the sunlight.
翻译付了入场费后，我们就开始在阳光下欣赏各种各样吸引人的东西。
---- A Unique Theme Park
◇ His train started from Vancouver, a city surrounded by mountains. After confirming his baggage was aboard the train, Kuang settled down in his seat.
他的火车从群山围绕的温哥华启程。在证实了自己的行李都在火车上之后，光就在座位上安坐下来。
◇ September 22, 2024 marks the start of a new season—but what exactly you should call that season depends on where in the world you are and whom you ask.
2024年9月22日（秋分）标志着新季节的开始，但是你应该如何称呼这个季节取决于你在世界上的哪个地方以及你问的是哪国人。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ Essentially, when you ingest a hot drink, you start sweating more. If the sweat is able to evaporate, it actually cools you down, more than compensating for the added heat to the body from the fluid.
基本原理是，当你喝热饮时，你会流更多汗，如果汗水能够蒸发掉，你就会感到凉爽，这个过程中降低的体温超过了热饮给你增加的体温。
---- Drinking hot tea in summer really does cool you down
◇ Truth: If you're looking to lose weight, you shouldn't assume that you can simply 'work off' whatever you eat. Experts say slimming down almost always starts with significant changes to your eating habits.
事实：如果你想要减肥，你就不要用“我吃下去的卡路里都能燃烧掉”来自我催眠。专家表示，瘦下来主要靠明显改变自己的饮食习惯。
---- Common fitness misconceptions
◇ It might feel as though pressing the snooze button in the morning gives you a little bit of extra rest to start your day, but the truth is that it does more harm than good.
你可能觉得早晨按掉闹钟能让你起床前多休息一会儿，但其实这样做弊大于利。
---- Bad habits you should break
◇ If someone is crying in an attempt to fake remorse or empathy, we say they are shedding “crocodile tears.” But how and why did we start pegging insincere displays of emotion to the toothy reptiles?
如果某人哭泣是为了装出悔过或同情的样子，我们就说他们掉的是“鳄鱼的眼泪”。但是我们是怎样又是为何会把不真诚的感情流露和鳄鱼联系在一起的呢？