start off的近义词
出发; 开始旅行; 以…开始; 迅速跑开
在餐桌上
A：What would you like to drink, Xiao Wang?
小王，你喜欢喝什么酒？
B：Why don’t we start off with a little Mao-tai?
我们先喝点茅台怎么样？
A：Great idea! Catherine, will you join us?
好主意！凯瑟琳，你一起来好吗？
C：I certainly will. The more, the merrier. To your health!
当然。人越多越高兴。祝你健康！
A：To your health!
祝你健康！
B：And to yours!
祝你健康！
B：Have some of this roast beef and some Yorkshire pudding to go with it. Help yourself to vegetables.
吃点烤牛肉，用约克夏布丁配着吃，请随便吃菜。
B：This is marvelous. What a wonderful cook you are.
才好极了。您真是一个了不起的厨师。
A：Some of the credit should go to me. I made the pudding!
这里面也有我一份功劳。布丁是我做的。
做生意
A：We’re looking for a manager to run the new branch office.
我们正在找一位经理来管理新的分公司。
B：Where is the branch office?
分公司在哪里？
A：It happens to be very close to your home. We were actually hoping that you might want to fill the position.
真巧，它离你家特别近。我们真的希望你能担任这个职务。
B：I’d have to think about it. How many people would I be managing?
我得考虑一下，我将会管理几名员工呢？
A：It will start off small, with only about 10 employees.
公司刚开始运营时规模比较小，大概有10 名员工。
B：That is quite small.
那确实很小。
A：Are you interested?
你感兴趣吗？
B：I guess. I do like the office I’m working in now, but it would be nice to work closer to my home.
我想是的。我很喜欢现在工作的地方，但如果能离家近些也不错。
A：Your salary would remain the same, but if you do a good job, I think there’s a possibility of a promotion down the road.
你的薪水保持不变，如果工作业绩好，还有升职的可能。
B：Really?
真的吗？
A：Yes. The reason we chose you is because you’re the best manager we have. We need someone who can organize the new office and make it run well.
是的，我们之所以选择你，就因为你是现在的最好的经理。我们需要一位有很好的组织能力并且能使公司良好运营的人。
B：So this isn’t a demotion?
这不是降职吧？
A：Oh, no, it’s quite the opposite!
不是，恰恰相反。
B：Well then, when should I start?
那好吧，什么时候开始上班？
A：So you’ll do it?
你决定做了吗？
B：Sure.
当然。
A：Great! We’ll send some people over to move your things tomorrow. You can have a long weekend and then start at your new office on Monday.
太好了！我们明天就派人给你搬东西。你可以休息一个长周末然后周一就在新的地方上班了。
start off的近义词
1. 出发,动身;开始：start from scratch 从头做起,从零开始 | start off 出发,动身;开始 | start up 突然站起,惊起
2. 出发, 开始：944. start for动身去 | 945. start off出发, 开始 | 946. railway station 火车站
3. 开始：hang up 挂电话 | start off 开始 | run into 偶然碰见
4. 出发：pay off还清 | start off出发 | show off炫耀
1. 从…开始;从…着手
If you start off by doing something, you do it as the first part of an activity.
e.g. She started off by accusing him of blackmail but he more or less ignored her...
她先是指控他勒索，但他几乎不理睬她。
e.g. Joe Loss started off playing piano background music for silent films in the 1920s.
乔·洛斯先是于 20 世纪 20 年代为无声电影弹奏钢琴背景音乐。
2. 使(某人)开始(做某事)
To start someone off means to cause them to begin doing something.
e.g. Her mother started her off acting in children's theatre.
她母亲先是让她在儿童剧院里演出。
3. 使开始
To start something off means to cause it to begin.
e.g. He became more aware of the things that started that tension off...
他越来越清楚地认识到引起紧张局势的原因。
e.g. Best results are obtained by starting the plants off in a warm greenhouse.
要想取得最理想的结果，一开始就应该让植株在温暖的温室里生长。
4. -> see start 4
1. After a slow start, the Velo card business has taken off since the end of 2008.
2. June is usually the start of a slowdown in business travel in Europe as people head off on holidays.
3. But it's hard for Ronnie when we come off stage and have a drink and start buzzing.
4. " Germany is off to an amazing start, " said Chief Executive Officer Carol Meyrowitz on a May 13 conference call.
5. Her desire to carry on skating has forced her to put off plans to start a family.
6. Though Beidou got off to a late start, navigation devices that can receive its signals carry high hopes.
7. But it got off to the worst possible start when Adam Rooney's flick deflected off Charlie Mulgrew for an own goal in the seventh minute.
8. If your driver does start to chew your ear off about the weather, just smile and he will think that you don't understand a word he says.
9. We were off to a good start - it was just down the road, it was squeaky clean and we were attended to straight away.
10. The group got off to a great start and instantly won a lot of publicity.