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

• Now the two set about the arrows do not know what is.
  现在，这两着手箭头不知道是什么。
• 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 will set about preparing supper.
  我要开始准备晚饭了。
• 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。
• We set about cleaning the house.
  我们着手打扫房子。
• On arriving there, they set about doing the experiment.
  一到那儿他们便开始做实验了。
• His wife set about upbraiding him for neglecting the children.
  他妻子开始指责他不照顾孩子。
• 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。
• 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 sat down at the table and set about his work.
  他坐在桌子前开始工作了。