started
US:/stɑrt/
UK:/stɑː(r)t/
v.:
开始；〈美〉出发；创办；着手
n.:
开始；出发；出发点；起动
abbr.:
(=Strategic Arms Reduction Talks)战略武器削减谈判
网络:
启动；工作开始；已启动
Word forms: (第三人称单数) starts (现在分词) starting (过去式) started
Examples
1.
She only started as a temp right before he arrived. Gretchen comes to see T-Bag to tell him about Scylla moving.
原来翠珊只比他早来到公司几天而已，格雷琴来见西奥多告诉他“锡拉”将要被移走。
2.
By 2 am, the wind kicked up and started pelting us from the side, blowing cold mountain air across us, not to mention some precipitation.
深夜2点钟，风刮了起来，开始从边上朝我们打来，冷冷的山风吹过我们的脸，更别提雨水了。
3.
He found a famous Chinese language teacher and started to ask how the simple concept of "I" in English should be expressed in Chinese.
第一天老外想挑一个简单词汇学习，便向老师请教英语“I”在汉语中应该如何说。
4.
At this point, to my great surprise, Parry put his hands over his face and started to cry.
就在这时，令我大吃一惊的是，帕里用双手捂住脸放声大哭。
5.
A prison doctor started treating him for TB with a four-drug regimen, but Gagarin said the prison sometimes ran out of the drugs.
在监狱里，医生采用了四联结核病药物疗法为他治疗，但DimitriyGagarin说监狱有时药会用完了。
6.
Though the cause is still under investigation, the fire may have been started by people, said the incident report.
事故报告说，虽然原因目前仍不明了，但是有可能山火是由人引起的。
7.
I started to explain that I could not do my best since my spectacles had been taken away from me, but she wouldn't let me finish.
我开始解释，我不可能干得很好，因为我的眼镜已给拿走了，但她不准我讲完。
8.
I knew I wanted to live to tell people what had happened. After a few hours on my own, I started hallucinating and caught myself yelling.
我知道我不想死，我要活下去，告诉人们所发生的一切。
9.
So I started on Kayak to get a sense of the market and found a nice four-star hotel near Dupont Circle.
因此我开始上Kayak查找，初步了解市场情况，找到杜邦圈（DupontCircle）附近的一家不错的四星级酒店。
10.
By the age of two or so, circuits here have started to develop.
到大约两岁的时候，这个区域的神经回路就开始发育了。