美 [straɪk ʌp]
开始唱或演奏：指开始唱歌或演奏乐器。
引发开始唱或演奏：指引导或引发开始唱歌或演奏乐器。
开始交谈：指开始交谈或展开对话。
strike up // [ striking struck stricken strikes ]
动词词组 When you strike up a conversation or friendship with someone, you begin one. 开始 (谈话); 建立 (友谊)
I trailed her into Penney's and struck up a conversation.
我跟随她进了彭尼家并开始交谈起来。
start playing
同义词： sound off
begin
... strike on打在…上；突然想起 strike up使开始；建立起；开始演奏 strike out打击；删去；想出；产生 ...
... strike on打在…上；突然想起 strike up使开始；建立起；开始演奏 strike out打击；删去；想出；产生 ...
... NASA：美国国家宇航局 strike up 发起谈话 stock up 囤货 ...
使开始；建立起；开始演奏
Strike up the band!
乐队开始演奏。
In one series of studies, researchers instructed Chicago area commuters using public transportation to strike up a conversation with someone near them.
在一系列研究中，研究人员指导芝加哥地区乘坐公共交通工具的通勤者与附近的人进行交谈。
Strike up a non-work conversation.
发起一段与工作无关的对话。
A short time later,state soldiers were used to break up a strike by railroad workers in New York.
VOA : special.2010.06.10
After months of growing tension, the head of the company sent three hundred private security officers to break up the strike and protect non-union workers.
VOA : special.2010.06.10
How would it strike you if you knew nothing about it, if you had never heard of it before, if you open up the covers of this book for the first time?
如果你对新约一无所知，如果你对新约为所未闻，如果这是你，第一次翻开新约，会有什么感觉？
新约课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Organized labor denounced him for using federal troops to break up the Pullman strike.
VOA : special.2010.06.24
To that end, MBA students are encouraged to strike up conversations with strangers.
What you CAN do is put yourself in the best situations to strike up genuine relationships with talented people.
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Meghalaya's enormous forest cover is community-owned, but timber merchants often bypass the local leaders to strike up deals with foresters.