start up

惊跳起来； 开动； 创办

verb

1. get off the ground

e.g. Who started this company?
We embarked on an exciting enterprise
I start my day with a good breakfast
We began the new semester
The afternoon session begins at 4 PM
The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack

Synonym: startembark oncommence

2. get going or set in motion

e.g. We simply could not start the engine
start up the computer

Synonym: start

1. -> see start 5;6

It is true that when there are start-up costs, such as credit checks, involved in serving a new customer, the costs exceed those of serving a repeat customer.(的确，当服务新客户需要启动成本时，比如信用检查，其成本要高于服务老客户的成本。)

Another start-up, TAT, has begun experimenting with a software called "Add Identity".(另一家新兴公司TAT已经开始尝试一种名为“增加身份”的软件。)

Add web content control to the list of start up applications.(添加网络内容控制到启动应用程序列表中。)

What's the first thing you do when you start up your web browser?(当你打开浏览器上网时的第一件事情是什么呢？)

Since you have more free time now, why not start up a new business?(现在你有更多自由的时间了，为何不开始做一件新的事情呢？)

Scripts to start up your disaster center resources.(用于启动灾难中心资源的脚本。)

Kapur notes, none of us like to fail, no matter how often Silicon Valley entrepreneurs praise the beneficial effects of an idea that fails or a start-up company that crashes and burns.(卡普尔指出，我们都不喜欢失败，不管硅谷的企业家们多么经常地赞扬那些失败想法或崩溃毁掉的初创公司所传达的有益影响。)

Start up the main server.(启动主服务器。)

How you help start up companies?(如何成立公司？)

She surprised him several times by seeming to start up beside him as if she sprang out of the earth.(有几次，玛丽让他吃了一惊，因为这小姑娘神不知鬼不觉地突然出现在他身边，仿佛是从地底下钻了出来。)