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
- 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。 - 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。 - He set about helping homeless women and children to place of safety.
他着手帮助把无家可归的妇女和儿童送到安全的地区。 - 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。 - 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。 - I must set about my packing.
我得开始收拾行李了。 - 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。 - 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。 - Having made up my mind, I immediately set about carrying out my plan.
拿定主意后，我立即着手实施我的计划。 - How do you set about talking the language you are given?
你是怎样开始讲他人的语言的？