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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - How are we going to set about this?
这事我们如何着手呢？ - 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。 - He sat down at the table and set about his work.
他坐在桌子前开始工作了。 - And set about establishing fault gases growth model to predict the development of a failure to determine the basis.
并着手建立故障气体的增长模式，为预测故障的发展提供了判断依据。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。