开始或导致（某事）以指定的方式开始：他通过介绍自己开始了。她以慢跑开始（她的跑步）。表演开始得很糟糕。
在开始时具有指定的品质、身份、工作等：她起初是一个销售助理，但现在是市场总监。
开始人生或职业生涯的重要阶段：这所房子非常适合刚开始的夫妇。
开始朝着特定的地方或方向移动：她吃完早餐后就开始上班了。
使（某人）开始进行特定的活动或行动：他让女儿开始学钢琴。游戏节目主持人给她一些简单的问题开始。
start off // [ starting started starts ]
动词词组 If you start off by doing something, you do it as the first part of an activity. 以…开始
She started off by accusing him of blackmail but he more or less ignored her.
她以指控他敲诈勒索开始，但他基本上没理会她。
动词词组 To start someone off means to cause them to begin doing something. 使 (某人) 开始 (做某事)
Her mother started her off acting in children's theatre.
她母亲让她开始在儿童剧院表演。
动词词组 To start something off means to cause it to begin. 使 (某事) 开始
He became more aware of the things that started that tension off.
他对造成那些紧张气氛的因素更加清楚了。
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It's such a pity if you start off on a bright tone on a story and suddenly realize you are talking about some people having been killed in a road crash.
如果你以欢快的嗓音开始播报新闻，但却突然意识到那是一篇致人死亡的交通事故的报道时，那就太遗憾了。
Let's start off with some gentle exercises.
我们先来做点强度小的练习。
The leaves start off green but turn red later.
树叶起先是绿色，到后来会变红。
"We start off by asking them to complete a national three-hour long educational program.
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I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.
我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。
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There was a pretender to the throne, and this man was--his life got off to an interesting start.
有一个觊觎王位的人,这个人的一生,有一个有趣的开始
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Mr Blank has spent the past 34 years in Silicon Valley, getting no fewer than eight start-ups off the ground.
We here at She Negotiates welcome Maestro Market, which launched today, to the ever growing resources available to women to achieve their dreams, get their start-up off the ground, inspire their employees, negotiate their first salaries (yes, that would be me), launch their books, or reduce the stress caused by all this hyper-achievement.
England got off to a decent start when stand-off Danny McGuire sent Leeds team-mate Smith over for the game's first try on 12 minutes.