1. “Max,” he said, “you gave me quite a start. I thought you were in Berlin. What are you doing in my room?”
    "马克斯，"　艾伯特说，"你真吓了我一跳。我还以为你在柏林呢，你在我屋里干什么？"

2. Caesar decided to throw out the old calendar and start all over again.
    恺撒决定抛弃旧的历法再重新开始。

3. "I shall start at once, but you must give me your lantern; the night is so dark that I am afraid I may fall into a ditch."
    ”我马上就去，但是你必须把提灯给我。天这么黑，我怕跌进沟里去。”

4. Right from the start there was trouble with the Hubble.
    从最开始哈勃望远镜就有问题。

5. Regardless, I made it into the finals. When we practiced the next morning, my coach made me start with the dive I'd hit my head on.
    尽管如此，我还是进入了决赛。第二天早晨训练时，教练让我从头部碰到跳板时的跳水动作开始练。

6. One night, however, our vicar woke up with a start: the clock was striking the hours!
    一天夜里，我们的牧师突然被惊醒了，大钟又在"打点"报时了！

7. One reason why prodigies such as Picasso and Einstein had a head start in life was that they had parents who demonstrated how to think about subjects like art or physics at a very early age.
    像毕加索、爱因斯坦这样的神童之所以能在生活中率先起跑的一个原因就是他们的父母在他们很小的时候就教给他们如何思考如艺术或物理这样的科目。

8. That given a planet only approximately like our own, life is almost certain to start.
    如果设想有一颗行星和我们地球的情况基本相似，那几乎肯定会产生生命。

9. Last June, Kenyan police attempted to break up a women's political meeting northwest of Nairobi, insisting it was illegal and might start a riot.
    去年6月，肯尼亚警方企图驱散在内罗毕西北部举行的一次妇女政治集会，坚持说它是非法的，可能引发骚乱。

10. Like a foot race, I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the middle to look behind and weep.
    就像一场赛跑一样，我飞速起跑，决不可中途停步，回望伤心。