set about
英 [set əˈbaʊt]
美 [set əˈbaʊt]
动手; 开始; 下手; 着手
英英释义
verb
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- We began working at dawn
- Who will start?
- Get working as soon as the sun rises!
- The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
- He began early in the day
- Let's get down to work now
- enter upon an activity or enterprise
- begin to deal with
- approach a task
- go about a difficult problem
- approach a new project
双语例句
- The new government set about dismantling their predecessors'legislation.
新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。 - I tried to apologize, but I think I set about it the wrong way.
我试着道歉，但我认为我表达的方式却错了。 - Jirtle and Waterland set about to see if they could change the unfortunate genetic legacy of these little creatures.
吉透和沃特兰在开始时想看看这些小生物是否能改变这不幸的遗传病。 - Now the two set about the arrows do not know what is.
现在，这两着手箭头不知道是什么。 - Prince Ivan broke the egg, took the needle out, and set about breaking the point off.
亲王伊凡打破了，把针，并打破了一点。 - I set about researching the habits of snakes so I could trap them in the easiest way.
于是我就着手研究蛇的习性，以便能用最简易的方法来捕蛇。 - After they had got in the wheat, they set about ploughing.
他们收了麦子，接着就开始犁地。 - He has set about carving up the company which Hammer created from almost nothing
他已经开始动手拆分这家几乎是哈默白手起家创办的公司。 - But the basement won out and they set about trying to raise more money for the business.
但地下室成功了，他们开始尝试为自己的公司筹集更多资金。 - How do you set about talking the language you are given?
你是怎样开始讲他人的语言的？