As soon as I started the car early this morning, a call came through that a young boy in our neighborhood was seriously ill.

今天一大早，我一发动车子，就接到一个电话，说我们社区的一个小男孩病得很重。

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I started the car again, and we drove home.

我再一次启动了小汽车，向家的方向开去。

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I can't get the car started.

这辆车我发动不起来。

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That's why I started with a spacial example: the train and move to the temporal example: the car.

所以今天一开始,我举出了特殊的例子：火车,现在又举例：汽车。

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It was quicker to reconnect the phone to the system manually than to wait for it to connect automatically, and that was very annoying every single time I started the car.

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When I shopped for my new car, I started at the main Subaru site to see which models and options were available, then I visited the sites of local Subaru dealers to browse inventory.

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When I started to get out of the car with him, though, Peck balked.

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