starters

英 [ˈstɑːtəz]

美 [ˈstɑrtərz]

n.  (主菜之前的)开胃小吃，开胃品; 参赛人; 参赛的马(或汽车等); (赛跑等的)发令员
starter的复数

柯林斯词典

• (一餐中的)第一道菜，开胃小吃
  Astarteris a small quantity of food that is served as the first course of a meal.

in AM, use 美国英语用 appetizer


• N-COUNT (汽车的)发动装置
  Thestarterof a car is the device that starts the engine.
  1. A car's starter is basically an electric motor.
     汽车的启动装置基本上是个电动机。
• N-COUNT (不一定坚持到比赛结束的)参赛者，参赛动物
  Thestartersin a race are the people or animals who take part at the beginning even if they do not finish.
  1. Of the 10 starters, four were eliminated or retired.
     10 名参赛者中有 4 名被淘汰或自行退出了。
• PHRASE 作为开端;首先;第一
  You usefor starterswhen you mention something to indicate that it is the first item or point in a series.
  1. These prizes are just for starters. Other exciting offers are flooding in...
     这些奖只是个开始。其他激动人心的奖励还会接踵而至。
  2. Her manager said, 'It will cost her 1.5 million pounds for starters if she loses.'
     她的经纪人说：“如果她输了，她将首先会损失 150 万英镑。”

双语例句

• Some common nonlinear loads are fluorescent lighting, SCR motor starters and UPS systems.
  一些常见的非线性负载有荧光灯、控硅电动机启动器以及UPS系统。
• For starters, the bills table has all sorts of de-normalized junk in it.
  对于初学者，这一账单表中包含了各种不正常数据垃圾。
• For starters, I used brackets when I called the each method on the definitions instance.
  为了让初学者看明白，在definitions实例上调用each方法时使用了花括号。
• Yeast and lactobacillus were used as starters for production of sour soymilk liquor.
  对酵母菌与乳酸菌混合发酵制备酸豆浆酒的工艺进行了研究。
• When cultures are grown without phages or under aseptic conditions ( starters), they lose their phage resistance.
  当培养物存在于没有噬菌体或无菌的条件时，它们便失去了抵抗噬菌体的能力。
• Many of their bench players are as good or better than our starters.
  很多他们的替补球员跟我们的先发一样棒，甚至更好。
• For starters, tradition got in the way of innovation.
  首先，传统阻碍了创新。
• The company specializes in the production and sales of fluorescent lamp starters and PTFE tape.
  本公司专心致力于日光灯启辉器和聚四氟乙烯生料带的生产和销售。
• For starters, the major players are all starting to push enterprise-grade Web 2.0 products to market.
  首先，主要的参与者都开始将企业级Web2.0产品投放市场。
• For new starters, you need an internet service provider to gain access to the internet and email.
  新的先发球员，你需要一个互联网服务提供商，以获取互联网及电子邮件。