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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In New Zealand they take refuge amid hot sulphur springs and in a house "tabooed"; they escape by starting a volcano into eruption.
-- But before starting he confided an important missive to a swifter agent than himself, and a few minutes afterward it flashed along the electric wire to London, to appear next day in the Times and Morning Chronicle in the following words: "For information respecting the fate of the three-mast vessel BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, Captain Grant, apply to Lord Glenarvan, Malcolm Castle, Luss, Dumbartonshire, Scotland."
-- "We'll have supper first," rejoined Glenarvan, "and then sleep, if we can, till it is starting time."
-- The time for starting had arrived.
-- When we go on board the DUNCAN, turn her beak head to the east, and go right along the thirty-seventh parallel till we come back to our starting point if necessary."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slink-ing away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
-- On the 4th of May Sir Charles had declared his in-tention of starting next day for London, and had ordered Barrymore to prepare his luggage.
-- In five minutes we were outside the door, starting upon our expedition.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked at her, and she stared back with her eyes starting out of her head, but she did not say a word.
-- cried the general, starting up as if he had been shot.
-- 'This is too horrible,' said the general, starting to his feet.
-- He was just starting again when you arrived, so much does he admire it.
-- replied Rogojin, starting at the unexpected question.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jove now woke on the crests of Ida, where he was lying with golden-throned Juno by his side, and starting to his feet he saw the Trojans and Achaeans, the one thrown into confusion, and the others driving them pell-mell before them with King Neptune in their midst.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then he had fetched away a three-gallon jug of whisky, too, that he found under a wagon when he was starting home through the woods.
-- I was just starting down the ladder, and I see them.'
-- As they was starting down the ladder the duke he chuck-les again, and says: 'Quick sales AND small profits!It's a good busi- ness yes.'
-- they all shouted, and was starting right off; but the lawyer and the doctor sung out: 'Hold on, hold on!Collar all these four men and the boy, and fetch THEM along, too!'
-- Tom was over the stile and starting for the house; the wagon was spinning up the road for the village, and we was all bunched in the front door.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is starting now."
-- Before starting out, we'll take a little nap.
-- Before starting out, the officers called out to several fishermen passing by in a boat and said to them: "Take care of this little fellow who has been hurt.
-- The Manager bowed and then turned to Pinocchio and said: "Ready, Pinocchio!Before starting your performance, salute your audience!"
-- "But I don't want to be digested," shouted Pinocchio, starting to sob.
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