starting是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 出发， 开始，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cur-tains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your el-bow.
-- Away they all went, twenty couples at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.
-- cried Scrooge, starting off again, and going round the fireplace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a building at the back, attainable by a courtyard where a plane-tree rustled its green leaves, church-organs claimed to be made, and silver to be chased, and likewise gold to be beaten by some mysterious giant who had a golden arm starting out of the wall of the front hall as if he had beaten himself pre-cious, and menaced a similar conversion of all visitors.
-- Early to-morrow have your horses ready, so that they may be in starting trim at two o'clock in the af-ternoon.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin got up from his chair, as though on the point of starting off at once.
-- And not assisting the harassed young man she was dancing with in the conversation, the thread of which he had lost and could not pick up again, she obeyed with external liveliness the peremptory shouts of Korsunsky starting them all into the grand round, and then into the chaine, and at the same time she kept watch with a growing pang at her heart.
-- And with the inability to express himself, the incoherence that Konstantin knew so well, he began, with another look round at everyone, to tell his brother Kritsky's story: how he had been expelled from the university for starting a benefit society for the poor students and Sunday schools; and how he had afterwards been a teacher in a peasant school, and how he had been driven out of that too, and had afterwards been condemned for something.
-- At the very moment of starting Stepan Arkadyevitch arrived, late, rosy and good-humored, smelling of wine and cigars.
-- He remembered how before starting for Moscow he had once said to his cowman Nikolay, a simple-hearted peasant, whom he liked talking to: "Well, Nikolay!I mean to get married," and how Nikolay had promptly answered, as of a matter on which there could be no possible doubt: "And high time too, Konstantin Demitrievitch."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell me honestly, because I'm just starting in, and, uh-- You get me."
-- Fact is, he's tickled to death about the careful way you're starting in.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her eyes seemed to be starting out of their sockets, the brow and the whole face were drawn and contorted convulsively.
-- Are you starting soon on your travels, may I ask?'
-- 'Why, be starting for America, and be stopped by rain!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every time he utteredthis ejaculation, his eyes seemed to be in danger of starting out;and every sentence he spoke, he delivered in a sort of tune, alwaysexactly the same, and more like a gust of wind, which begins low,mounts up high, and falls again, than any other comparison I canfind for it.
-- I went on, by passing the wine faster and faster yet, andcontinually starting up with a corkscrew to open more wine, longbefore any was needed.
-- What with the novelty of this cookery, the excellence of it, thebustle of it, the frequent starting up to look after it, the frequentsitting down to dispose of it as the crisp slices came off the gridironhot and hot, the being so busy, so flushed with the fire, so amused,and in the midst of such a tempting noise and savour, we reducedthe leg of mutton to the bone.
-- he exclaimed, starting outof his silence with a burst, and taking his seat at the table.
-- It was a sombre evening, with a lurid light in the sky;and as I saw the prospect scowling in the distance, with here andthere some larger object starting up into the sullen glare, I fanciedit was no inapt companion to the memory of this fierce woman.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No I have never seen Mr. Elton,' she replied, starting on this appeal; 'is he is he a tall man?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Indeed, I hadn't time to think before starting whether I wanted to marry or not, for you'd have been gone over the hill."
-- This exceptional ringing may be caused in two ways by the rapid feeding of the sheep bearing the bell, as when the flock breaks into new pasture, which gives it an intermittent rapidity, or by the sheep starting off in a run, when the sound has a regular palpitation.
-- said Joseph, starting back.
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