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 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。 - I must set about my packing.
我得开始收拾行李了。 - He set about the task with becoming precautions.
他相信谨慎地着手做这一桩工作。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We set about cleaning the house.
我们着手打扫房子。 - 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。 - 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。