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
- 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。 - How are we going to set about this?
这事我们如何着手呢？ - We set about cleaning the house.
我们着手打扫房子。 - Aunt Wu set about making tea. Only for my tea, I should have had the headache.
吴大婶张罗着沏茶。要是不喝茶，我又会犯头痛病了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - How do you set about talking the language you are given?
你是怎样开始讲他人的语言的？ - 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。 - His wife set about upbraiding him for neglecting the children.
他妻子开始指责他不照顾孩子。