| 单词 | to start up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto start up to start up 1. intransitive. a. To rise suddenly to one's feet; to spring to an upright position. Also: to get up after having been asleep or otherwise inactive; to bestir oneself; to awaken suddenly.In early use also transitive (reflexive) in same sense. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > bestir oneself arisec825 to start upc1275 stirc1275 shifta1400 awakea1450 to put out one's fins?1461 wake1523 to shake one's ears1580 rouse1589 bestira1616 awaken1768 arouse1822 waken1825 to wake snakes1835 roust1841 to flax round1884 to get busy1896 to get one's arse in gear1948 the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > rise or be standing [verb (intransitive)] > rise > quickly or suddenly to start upc1275 upstart1303 leapc1330 upspringc1374 uprapea1400 boltc1425 starta1470 spring1474 rear1835 rare1886 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11952 Þær Bruttes wolden ouer water buȝen. ȝif Arður up ne sturte [c1300 Otho storte] strec-liche sone. c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 456 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 232 (MED) Þe fisches sturten op with þis song ase þei huy a-woken a-slepe. c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) 816 When rouland herd þat steuen, He stirt him vp ful euen, & fauȝt wiþ hert fre. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 1569 So loude þey herde one cry & wepe; Þey sterte vp alle for to see what wundyr þyng þat myȝt be. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 83 Þis cokk starte vpp with his fedurs on, & clappid samen hys wengis, & krew. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xiv. 10 And he stert vppe, and walked. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 735/1 I sterte up sodaynly out of my bedde. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 99 She..now falls on her bed, and then starts vp. View more context for this quotation 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 48 Andronicus..in great rage start vp and said. 1653 D. Osborne Lett. to Sir W. Temple (1888) 176 I, that had not said a word all night, started up at that, and desired they would say a little more on't, for I had not marked the beginning. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 813 Up he starts Discoverd and surpriz'd. View more context for this quotation 1704 Boston News-let. 17 July 3/2 Champney started up, and took an Ax and knock'd him in the head. a1743 J. Cannon Chrons. (2010) I. 171 In the horse track sat a hare which would not be moved a long time till at last by my whipping her she started up & crossed the road into a field of wheat very fast. 1775 N. W. Wraxall Cursory Remarks Tour N. Europe 306 Two..ill-looking figures started up at the same moment, like automatons actuated by springs. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 176 ‘The de'il, woman!’ exclaimed Cuddie, starting up, ‘trow ye that I am blind?’ 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story iii ‘This is too bad!’ said Mrs. G. starting up. 1861 Temple Bar Nov. 536 I started up a little more from sleep when I heard that the Loggie of Raphael..were not to be restored, but copied. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 7 Chaerephon..started up and ran to me, seizing my hand. 1914 E. H. W. Hulse Let. 28 Dec. in L. Housman War Lett. Fallen Englishmen (2002) 147 An old hare started up... I gave one loud ‘View Holloa’, and one and all..rushed about giving chase. 1981 D. Anderson Rough Layout xix. 148 He started up out of the sofa so quickly at the news, that he almost knocked over her potted Benjamina. 2001 N. Roberts Betrayal in Death iv. 64 She started up as she spoke, breaking off when he laid a hand on her arm. b. Of the hair: to stand on end; to bristle; to stick up. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > horripilation > [verb (intransitive)] bristle1480 to stick upa1500 to stand or start widdershins1513 upstart1513 starta1522 stare?1523 to start up1553 rousea1616 horripilate1623 stiver1790 uprise1827 upstare1886 1553 R. Horne tr. J. Calvin Certaine Homilies ii. sig. Giij So to fray vs, that for fear the hears of our heade shold stert vpp. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 113 Your bedded haire..Start vp and stand an end. View more context for this quotation 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 249 The hair of my head so started up, that it threw my cap on the ground. 1706 N. Rowe Ulysses v. i. 58 Tho' my offended Father's angry Ghost Shou'd rise all pale and bloody just before me. 'Till my Hair started up. 1796 G. D. Harley Poems 142 Things that wou'd freeze th' arrested blood to feel, And but to hear, make the fell'd hair start up. 1815 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 121 Had the superincumbent weight of her headdress..been less preponderant, her grey locks must have started up on end, and hurled it from its position. 1875 H. E. Scudder Doings Bodley Family xv. 243 In this chair sat the old man, with his immense form, his white hair starting up from his head. 1902 F. McElrath Rustler xxiii. 371 His hair started up in terror. 1998 W. J. Schafer Mapping Godzone vi. 140 It is the hair starting up on the back of the neck or the nightmare sensation of being suddenly injected into an unexplored and forbidden space. c. Of a hill, mountain, etc.: to rise distinctly or sharply from the surrounding terrain. ΘΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > rise [verb (intransitive)] swell1679 to start up1802 1802 Monthly Rev. Feb. 121 An insulated ridge, about a quarter of a mile in length..with broken crags starting up amid the moss and heath with which it is covered. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii. 93 A beautiful green knoll, which started up suddenly in the very throat of a..narrow glen. 1877 H. Dixon Diana, Lady Lyle II. vii. i. 173 This nose of land starts up into a nab or peak, on which stands a feudal edifice. 1908 C. Field With Afghans vi. 96 A peculiar feature of the Yusufzai landscape is found in isolated hills starting up from the middle of the plain. 2000 T. Olson Write Let. to Billy xvi. 191 Beyond the alley, the hill started up, low scrub there and wildflowers on the embankment. 2. a. intransitive. Of a person: to rise rapidly to power, importance, or public attention; to become suddenly conspicuous, renowned, influential, etc. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)] > become important to start up1549 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 7th Serm. sig. Ccvii Ther be new spirits start vp now of late, that saye after we haue receyued the spyryt, we cannot synne. 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper f. lxiii Anone ther started vp a kynde of heritiques called Euchite, whyche thought that we ought to vse continual prayers, neuer ceasyng to murmure. a1566 Q. Kennedy Compend. Ressonyng in 2 Eucharistic Tracts (1964) 171 Haif we nocht seyn in oure dayes ane bletour stert vp to be ane bischop..ane pultroun to be ane priour. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 22 Vp start the Turks, a vagrant, fierce, and cruell people. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) ii. v. 236 In the turning of an hand a lewd and flagitious person starts up a great saint. 1741 T. Francklin tr. Cicero Of Nature of Gods i. 16 Now I would demand of you both, why these World-builders [L. mundi aedificatores] started up so suddenly, and lay dormant so many Ages? 1778 H. Brooke Antony & Cleopatra i. i, in Coll. Pieces II. 332 In the want of a more powerful hand, Or wiser head to rule, some new adventurer Starts up to signiorship. 1802 Public Characters 552 The Jumpers in Wales have started up as a sect within the last half century. 1895 W. S. Robinson Short Hist. Greece xliii. 350 Tyrant after tyrant started up, till at last Dionysius himself came back and ruled more oppressively than ever. 1934 Punch 17 Oct. 432/3 Here have we been..not paying our outfitters for years, and now up starts a young doctor..and undermines the cause for which we have so freely refused to be bled. 1993 A. Lasalle in K. Kann Comrades & Chicken Ranchers (1996) 139 Our Jewish people actually won more community sympathy when Hitler started up. b. intransitive. More generally: to come into being or notice, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly; to spring up. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [verb (intransitive)] > come into existence awakenc885 waxc888 arisec950 beOE comeOE aspringc1000 atspringOE growOE to come upOE inrisea1300 breedc1385 upspringc1386 takec1391 to come in?c1430 engender?1440 uprise1471 braird?a1500 risea1513 insurde1521 insurge1523 spring1538 to start up1568 exsurge1578 upstart1580 become1605 born1609 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)] beginc1000 comsea1225 gin?c1225 becomsea1375 commencec1380 to take beginninga1400 enterc1425 to start up1568 initiatea1618 inchoate1654 dawn1716 to take in1845 to take up1846 to set in1848 1568 Wyf of Auchtirmwchty l. 82 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 323 Than he beur kendling to the kill Bot scho start all vp in ane low. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 77 Litle and litle thair forces beginning to florishe weiris of new startis vpe. 1629 Vse of Law 58 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Since..these notable Statutes..there is start up a device called Perpetuitie. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvii. 386 So did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines. 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. ii. 18 You are wont to object to us..that our Religion is novel, start up not many days ago. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. xliv. 67 When he fled for shelter to the flattering creation of fancy, some abhorred idea always started up amidst the gay vision, and dissolved the pleasing enchantment. 1775 Earl of Carlisle in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 132 I am surrounded by difficulties, and as fast as I get the better of one another starts up. 1779 Universal Mag. 64 Suppl. 357/1 When the institution of chivalry started up, it gave a happy turn to this rudeness of manners. 1780 Mirror No. 102 Half a dozen societies have started up this winter, in which female speakers exercise their powers of elocution. 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 257 A village has started up where formerly a thick pinewood covered the ground. 1857 Youth's Mag. (N.Y.) 9 283 Stray words..start up on every side to the plodding word-lover, as he seeks to thread his way through the ‘maze of hoar antiquity’. 1895 P. Hemingway Out of Egypt ii. 158 A new conversation starts up every hour, and..there is never time to work to a conclusion. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden xxiii. 288 There had been a little rain and a fuzz of miserly grass had started up. 1997 P. Seabright in P. Dasgupta & K.-G. Mäler Environment & Emerging Devel. Issues II. xi. 299 Many co-operative societies have started up only to fold again relatively quickly. c. transitive. To cause to come into existence, notice, prominence, etc. Now rare or merged in 5c. ΚΠ 1677 M. Nedham 2nd Pacquet Advices 52 His Mastership hereupon starts up an invidious Question, Whether the King may dispence with Laws and Statutes? 1681 ‘Philopatris’ Plot in Dream iii. 72 No sooner one Treason was knockt down, but presently like Hydra's heads they hatch and start up a new one. 1717 W. Fleetwood Let. New Ceremonies Church 14 What if, after all, these Innovations..be..meerly to start up a New Distinction, and make a farther Difference betwixt [etc.]? 1803 R. Polwhele Hist. Cornwall I. i. ix. 196 The original British language..was doomed..to cross the seas and seek the Continent, starting up a new dialect on the shores of Armorica. 1894 C. A. McMurry Special Method Reading of Compl. Eng. Classics i. 17 The time usually spent in school upon some classic fragment or selection is barely sufficient to start up an interest. 1998 H. Carruth Reluctantly 140 I learned to start up a fire quickly with dry kindling. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > by searching or tracking down findOE track1565 to start up1566 explore1592 to find forth1601 tracea1913 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > find suddenly or unexpectedly espy1483 to start up1566 strike1851 surprise1890 1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Ciiij To sterte vp in astrologie The casuals of men. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin original.] a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) viii. i. 350 The Minds of men..are ever and anon roving after Religion; and as they casually and fortuitously start up any Models and Ideas of it, they are presently prone to believe themselves to have found out this only Pearl of price. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 203 Now that this is almost consented to..a Patent of Sr Thomas Armstrong's is started up to obstruct it. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow waxc1000 thrivec1175 breeda1350 grow1382 springc1384 upgrowc1430 shoot1538 bud1566 eche1567 to start up1570 vegetate1605 excresce1691 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2122/1 Thou art but a beardles boy, start vp yesterday out of the scholes. 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy ii. 26 I haue a fist for thee too (Strippling) th'art started vp prettily since I saw thee. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 103 From a child he starts up a youth, and becomes a stripling. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xiv. 152 Girls will start up, and look up, and parents cannot help it. 1835 Friendship's Offering 277 Those whom he had known as children had started up into young women, a process remarkably rapid in that country. 5. a. intransitive. To begin to function or operate; to begin playing, singing, etc.; to become active in a particular sphere, profession, etc. Π 1829 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 313 Half-and-half works, where the author is entirely lost sight of in one page, and starts up again, prosy and egotistical, in the next. 1867 Amer. Jrnl. Mining 6 Apr. 28/3 The Twenty Friends [well] has started up again. 1885 Maine Farmer 5 Nov. A young man..just starting up in the business of farming. 1926 Blackwood's Mag. May 595/2 The ‘whomp’ of an orchestra starting up in some theatre. 1969 D. Carpenter Murder of Frogs 187 I heard the birds starting up outside. 1976 P. Haines Kind of War ii. iv. 167 The early morning traffic started up and still she was awake. 1987 S. Eldred-Grigg Oracles & Miracles ii. 21 Often as not us kids would be in bed before he got home, and then of course Mum would start up. 2013 M. Dalton Fifteenth Summer 237 As soon as the band started up with a twangy rockabilly tune, everyone around us started dancing. b. transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). With gerund, verbal noun, or infinitive as object: to begin (an action or activity).Cf. sense 17a(a) of the simple verb. ΚΠ 1862 D. C. Eddy Walter in Egypt x. 125 His Arab guides started up singing a sort of doggerel in broken English. 1911 ‘Q. Allen’ Outdoor Chums xxi. 192 At the last minute we can stop it. When Pet starts up to strike a match, then we'll take a hand. 1946 High Light (Port Credit High School, Ont.) Nov. 5/3 Some poor helpless baby Has started up to cry. 1988 N. Kincaid in S. Ravenel New Stories from South 224 She would pour Mercurochrome into her cuts which would make Melvina holler and start up crying again. 2001 Nation (N.Y.) 7 May 23/1 You start up talking about condoms in this country, and..teens just end up frozen like a deer in the headlights. c. transitive. To set (a machine, business, etc.) in operation; to cause to begin to function or operate; to establish, institute. Also intransitive. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > cause to begin to act or operate to put (also set) to worka1398 to put on work?1440 streek?a1500 setc1500 to put (also set) in (also into) motion1598 spring1598 to set offa1625 to put (also set) in work1626 to set (a-)going1705 start1822 to start up1865 to set in motion1890 1865 Daily Miners' Reg. (Central City, Colorado) 21 July The Black Hawk Mining Company have started up their new mill on the Gregory Lode. 1889 Hist. Pacific Northwest II. 241/1 He was obliged to close up and borrow $25 to go to Seattle, where he once more started up a business with a partner named Hunt. 1899 National Engineer Oct. 4/3 I found the engine room full of men, boys, etc., to see the expert from the city start up the engine. 1910 Marine Oil Engine Handbk. 14 It is possible to start up from cold on petrol. 1923 Wall St. Jrnl. 30 May 12/4 In January, figures were still in red ink due to starting up production on the new low-priced..model. 1945 C. S. Lewis That Hideous Strength xiv. 383 He started his engine up and they drove away. 1979 D. Clark Heberden's Seat i. 8 A car with a set of jump leads to start me up would do it. 2012 Independent on Sunday 21 Oct. (New Review) 3/1 Before starting up our small bookshop and events venue..we had our local pub landlord round for dinner, and asked for his advice. < as lemmas |
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