start ·verb (SWITCH ON)

Definition: If you start a machine or an engine, you switch it on, and if a machine or engine starts, it begins to work. Level: B2

汽车发动不了。

The car wouldn't ___start.

你知道怎么启动割草机吗？

Do you know how to ___start the lawn mower?

汽车启动不了，所以我们不得不一路跑到学校。

The car would not ___start, so we had to run all the way to school.