件，次used for incidents

• 这样的刑事案件没有几起。

  This type of criminal case is very rare.

群，批group; batch

• 一大起人

  a large group of people

• 来了一起工人

  a group of workers arrived

• 把肥料分两起送去

  send the fertilizer on in two batches

在时间或处所词之前，表示始点<方>used in front of a time or location word to indicate a starting point

• 您起哪儿来。

  Where have you come from?

在处所词前面，表示经过的地点<方>used in front of a noun of location to show that something is passing it

• 看见一个人起窗户外面走过去

  see someone pass by outside the window

参见：起来

• 早睡早起

  early to bed, early to rise

离开to leave

• 你起开点儿。

  Could you step aside?

上升to rise

• 飞机起到半空

  the aircraft is taking to the sky

• 皮球不起了

  the ball does not bounce any more

长出to appear

• 起痱子

  get prickly heat

• 手上起了个泡

  blister appeared on one's hand

把东西弄出来to remove

• 起钉子

  remove nails

• 起货

  take goods from the warehouse

发生to happen

• 起风了

  the wind has got up

• 起误会

  create a misunderstanding

• 起作用

  have an effect

• 时间起着作用

  time has an effect

• 心里忽然起了个念头

  suddenly have an idea pop into one's mind

• 形势起了变化

  the situation has changed

发动to launch

拟写to draft

• 起稿子

  make a draft

• 起绰号

  give a nickname

建立to build

• 平地起高楼

  build tall buildings on empty ground

领取to collect

• 起护照

  collect one's passport

• 起船票

  collect a boat ticket

开始to start

• 从今天起

  starting from today

• 从现在起

  from now on

• 从那时起

  from that time on

• 打这儿起

  from here on

• 从出生时起

  starting at birth

用在动词后，表示开始used after a verb to indicate the action is beginning

• 提起这话...

  on this topic,

• 我真不知从何说起。

  I really don't know where to start.

• 这是从何说起。

  Where should one begin?

• 应从昨天算起

  should start counting from yesterday

用在动词后，表示向上used after a verb to indicate upward motion

• 挑起担子

  lift up the shoulder pole

• 拿起武器

  pick up the weapon

• 风吹起了灰尘

  the wind blew the dust up

用在动词后，表示力量够得上used after a verb to indicate possibility

• 经得起考验

  can stand up to tests

用在动词后，表示事物随动作出现used after a verb to show that something comes in to being as a result of the action

• 乐队奏起迎宾曲

  the band strikes up a welcome tune

• 会场响起热烈掌声

  rapturous applause resounds through the meeting hall

用在动词后，表示动作涉及人或事used after a verb to indicate that someone or something is involved in the action

• 想起一件事

  think of a matter

• 他多次问起过你。

  He has asked about you many times.