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 knows how to set about doing these things.
他知道怎样着手做这些事情。 - How do you set about talking the language you are given?
你是怎样开始讲他人的语言的？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - After they had got in the wheat, they set about ploughing.
他们收了麦子，接着就开始犁地。