set about

英 [set əˈbaʊt]

美 [set əˈbaʊt]

动手; 开始; 下手; 着手

法律

英英释义

verb

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  1. We began working at dawn
  2. Who will start?
  3. Get working as soon as the sun rises!
  4. The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
  5. He began early in the day
  6. Let's get down to work now
  Synonym:get downbegingetstart outstartset outcommence
• enter upon an activity or enterprise
  Synonym:undertakeattempt
• begin to deal with
  1. approach a task
  2. go about a difficult problem
  3. approach a new project
  Synonym:go aboutapproach

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。
• Then Spelke and colleagues set about their three-phase training regime.
  然后，Spelke和同事们开始了他们三个阶段的训练计划。
• His wife set about upbraiding him for neglecting the children.
  他妻子开始指责他不照顾孩子。
• How are we going to set about this?
  这事我们如何着手呢？
• 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。
• On arriving there, they set about doing the experiment.
  一到那儿他们便开始做实验了。
• 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。
• 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 knows how to set about doing these things.
  他知道怎样着手做这些事情。