start

vt. alarm suddenly,startle,disturb 使震惊，使吃惊，使不安。
△Tw.4. 1. 63 (59): “He started one poorheart of mine,in thee.”他惊动了在你胸里的我的心。(又译：为你惊起了我心头的小鹿——原文heart与hart“鹿”同音双关，将恋爱的心比做被追猎之鹿。)
△ Oth.1.1.101: “Tostart my quiet.”惊扰我的安宁。
△Mac.5.5.14:“Direness …/ Cannot once start me.”i.e.Horror can never startle me. 恐怖再也不能使我吃惊。
～ vi.
1. move with a sudden or violent impulse,make a sud-den involuntary movement 吃惊，惊起。
△Mac.1.3. 51:“Good sir,why do you start,and seem to fear/Things that do sound so fair?”阁下为何吃惊，对这听来如此悦耳的事情像是害怕似的？
2. move spasmodically 一惊一咋。
△Mac.5.2.22:“Who then shall blame / His pestered senses to recoiland start,/ When all that is within himdoes condemn / Itself for bein g there?”既然他内心的 一切都在谴责它自己的存在，那么谁还能怪他那昏乱的知觉惊诧不安呢？
△H.VIII.3.2.114 (113): “he bites his lip,andstarts,/ Stops on a sudden,looks upon the ground,/Then lays his finger on his temple；”他咬着自己的嘴唇，做出一惊一咋的动作，又突然停住，注视地面，然后把手指放在太阳穴上。
3. make a sudden change of place,jump from theplace,sprin g,jump 突然离开原位，跳出来，跳起，跳。
△ Mac.4. 1.116:“Start,eyes!”眼睛，跳出眼眶吧！
△Ham.1.1.148: “And then it started like a guiltything / Upon a fearful summons.”然后它就惊跳起来，好像一个犯罪的人听到了可怕的召唤。
△Ham.1.5.17:“Makethy two eyes like stars start from their spheres，”使你的两只眼睛像流星一样跳出了眶子。
4. move suddenly,go away abruptly,jump away突然移动，突然离开，跳开。
△ Ham.3.2.325(308): “put yourdiscourse into some frame,and start not so wildlyfrom my affair.”请你说话有个谱儿，别这样跑野马，离题远了。
△Lr.4.3.33(31):“then away she started / Todeal with grief alone.”然后她突然走开独自对付悲痛去了。start away: move away suddenly,go away abruptly突然移开，突然离开。
△1H.IV.1.3.216: “ You
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away. / And lend no ear unto my purposes.”你把话扯远了，我的意图你一点也不肯听。
5. make a sudden change and pursue a certain course突然转而奔向某一行程。
△2H.IV.1.1.46:“and starting so / He seemed in running to devour theway，”他就这样突然飞奔而去，仿佛把道路都吞食了。
6. appear suddenly突然出现。
△Ado.4.1.162 (160):“To start into her face，”泛起在她的脸上。
7. jump or twitch with pain （因疼痛而）跳起或抽搐。
△2H.VI.2.4.34: “The ruthless flint doth cut mytender feet,/ And when I start,the envious people laugh，”无情的路石划破我娇嫩的脚，我疼得一惊跳，那些心怀恶意的人们就大笑。
8. shrink,wince退缩，畏缩。
△Wiv.5.5.92(86):“but if he start,/ It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.”如果他吃惊畏缩，那就证明他心地龌龊。
9. (of a horse) shy,spring spasmodically （马）惊退，惊跳。
△R.III.3.4.83(84):“Three times today my foot-cloth horse did stumble,/ And started when helooked upon the Tower，” i.e. omens of misfortune. 我那披着贵重马披的坐骑今天有三次失足，它一看见伦敦塔就惊跳。
10. swerve aside (like a horse) （马）转弯，逸出常轨。
△Com.2.1.30: “start some other where”，i.e. gooff in some other direction; after some other woman.有了外遇。