单词 | to start over |
释义 | > as lemmasto start over to start over intransitive. Originally and chiefly North American. To begin again; to make a fresh start. Also transitive: to begin (something) again.Instances of to start over again may in some cases be uses of the simple verb with over again (see over adv. 15b). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > again renulec1384 recommence1481 return1568 continue1711 resume1815 to start over1852 to start over1852 to pick up1906 1852 Western Hort. Rev. Jan. 189/2 I should rather amputate or decapitate the whole tree, and start over again. 1877 T. N. Vail Let. 25 Jan. 2 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (44th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Misc. Doc. 35) I The mail to be delivered to all other roads would go back to Saint Louis to start over, and be thus delayed. 1890 Irish Times 3 Dec. 5/8 The Liberal party would become useless, and they would have to start over again. 1924 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 27 Oct. (1964) 168 I'm tired of being the author of This Side of Paradise and I want to start over. 1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward ii. 112 Now go back to the beginning and start over. 1987 M. Kochanski Northern Bushcraft (1988) x. 250 The process is then carried out in reverse or started over again. 2010 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 July 3 The first great existential crisis of the digital age: the impossibility of erasing your posted past, starting over, moving on. < as lemmas |
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