set about
- 着手;开始;动手;下手
verb
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- 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
- Synonym: get down begin get start out start set out commence
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- enter upon an activity or enterprise
- Synonym: undertake attempt
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- begin to deal with
- approach a task
- go about a difficult problem
- approach a new project
- Synonym: go about approach
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I 've no idea how to set about changing a tyre on a car .
我不知道该什么动手换汽车轮胎。
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She set about brewing some herb tea .
她动手泡一些药茶。
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We need to set about finding a solution .
我们得着手寻找一个解决办法。
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After the earthquake , the people set about rebuilding their homes .
地震过后,人们开始重建家园。
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Nothing daunted , the people set about rebuilding their homes .
人们毫不气馁,又开始重建家园。
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They set about disbanding the terrorist groups .
他们开始解散恐怖主义组织。
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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。
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His wife set about upbraiding him for neglecting the children .
他妻子开始指责他不照顾孩子。
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He had never intended living there after his wife 's death and immediately set about trying to make a sale .
妻子去世后他就不打算住在那里了,因此马上着手要将其卖掉。
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Undaunted by the scale of the job , Lesley set about planning how each room should look .
莱斯利并没有被这项浩大的工程所吓倒,开始着手规划每个房间的格局。
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Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering . It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats .
施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开,调查了日本的工厂以弄清楚他们如何能生产出如此了不起的产品。
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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。
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Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American , Christine Frederick , who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife .
许多对于厨具设计的现代观点都可以追溯到另一个美国人克莉斯汀·弗雷德里克。她着眼于提高家庭主妇的效率。
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We set about our task at once with great enthusiasm .
我们立刻兴致勃勃地干起来。
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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
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He set about rebuilding France , and made it into a brilliant-looking modernized imperialism .
他试图重建法国,使它成为一项表面华丽的现代化帝业。
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A farmer 's boy went looking for snails1 , and , when he had picked up both his hands full , he set about making a fire at which to roast them ;
一个乡下少年到处寻找蜗牛,当他双手都塞满了蜗牛后,就准备点火烤着吃。
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And so she set about to make it so .
于是,她开始着手实现这个想法。
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The students set about doing their tasks with a will .
学生们起劲地工作。
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He doesn 't know how to set about doing the job .
他不知道如何着手做这项工作。
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The author set about to writing a new book .
这作家着手写他的新书。
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The young workers set about their work with great enthusiasm .
青年工人们怀着极大的热情开始工作。
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How do you set about talking the language you are given ?
你是怎样开始讲他人的语言的?
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We set about preparing for the party one week ago .
我们一周前就开始为这个晚会做准备了。
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So with that in mind , I 'm going to set about
所以谨记着这一点,我要开始
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The Minimum Test Set About the Logical Circuit of Single Input
单输出逻辑电路的最小测试集
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She set about the business of cleaning the house .
她着手清理房子的业务。
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The new government must set about finding solutions to the country 's economic problems .
新政府必须立即找出解决国家经济问题的办法。
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He sat down at the table and set about his work .
他坐在桌子前开始工作了。
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He knows how to set about doing these things .
他知道怎样着手做这些事情。