set about

英[setə'baʊt] 美[setə'baʊt]

开始；着手

set a theme v:出题
set about 开始；着手
set angry v:一气
set apart 分开；区别；使与众不同
set aside v.留出；拨出；拒绝；驳回；不理会；废止

Verb:

begin to deal with;
"approach a task"
"go about a difficult problem"
"approach a new project"
enter upon an activity or enterprise
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"

1. He set about raising an army.: 他着手组建一支部队。

2. We need to set about finding a solution.: 我们得着手寻找一个解决办法。

3. He has set about carving up the company which Hammer created from almost nothing.: 他已着手瓜分哈默白手起家创办的公司。

4. Armed with the information you have gathered, you can set about preparing your business plan.: 有了这些信息，你就可以开始着手准备你的商业计划了。

5. Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife.: 许多关于厨房设计的现代想法可以追溯到另一个美国人——克里斯汀·弗雷德里克，她致力于提高家庭主妇的效率。

6. They took a long time getting to the top, the only reward for the long years of waiting being that when they had their own newspapers, both knew what they wanted and firmly set about getting it.: 他们花了很长时间才达到顶峰，多年等待的唯一回报是，当他们有了自己的报纸，他们俩都知道自己想要什么，并坚定地着手去实现它。

7. They set about disbanding the terrorist groups.: 他们开始解散恐怖主义组织。

8. She set about the business of cleaning the house.: 她动手打扫起房子来。

9. Nothing daunted, the people set about rebuilding their homes.: 人们毫不气馁，又开始重建家园。

10. After the earthquake, the people set about rebuilding their homes.: 地震过后，人们开始重建家园。

11. Undaunted by the scale of the job, Lesley set about planning how each room should look.: 莱斯利没有被该工程的规模所吓倒，开始规划每个房间的陈设。

12. 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，调查了日本的工厂来弄清楚他们怎么生产出了如此了不起的产品。

13. They got scorched out by and by, and drearily set about getting breakfast.: 他们不久就被晒得浑身燥热，无精打采地弄早饭吃。

14. Having identified this fundamental unit, Shannon set about defining otherwise vague ideas about information and how to transmit it from place to place.: 确定了这个基本单位后，香农开始定义关于信息及如何将信息从一处传到另一处的模糊概念。

15. He set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck.: 他开始和他的工程师朋友赫伯特·菲克一起开发气垫鞋底。

16. A data set about your data.: 是一个关于你的数据的数据集。

17. Last year, I set about writing a book.: 去年我计划写一本书。

18. He set about learning Chinese at age ten.: 他在十岁时开始学中文。

19. How do you set about talking the language you are given?: 你是怎样开始讲他人的语言的？

20. We then set about creating a suitable development environment.: 然后我们着手创建合适的开发环境。

21. Then have the alarm set about 30 minutes after the SUNS fully up.: 然后，将闹钟定到太阳完全升起后约30分钟的时刻。

22. So like any diligent scientist, he set about trying to derive one.: 所以，像其他勤奋的科学家一样，他自己尝试着推论出一个来。

23. Soon, the lawyer set out to documents, he set about collecting evidences.: 很快，律师着手准备文件。他开始收集证据。

24. She set about trying to find out everything she possibly could about cancer.: 她着手尝试着尽可能挖掘每件涉及癌症的东西。

25. They quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.: 然后他们开始迅速寻找一种恒久的方法来纪念他们钟爱的儿子。

26. I set about cutting it up - a horrific task - and we cured the meat over a fire.: 我将其切碎，那真是一件可怕的差事。我们在火上制作咸肉。

27. Various continental European countries also set about recapitalizing their banks.: 许多欧洲大陆国家也开始计划调整银行资本结构。

28. The Gerdses built a facility just off Pinecone Road and set about building their client base.: 盖尔特夫妇在松果路旁建立了这家医院并着手建立自己的客户群。

29. The Gerdses built a facility just off Pinecone Road and set about building their client base.: 盖尔特夫妇在松果路旁建立了这家医院并着手建立自己的客户群。

He set about learning Chinese at age ten.
他在十岁时开始学中文。
They set to work accumulating a huge mass of data.
他们开始累积大量的资料。
Do you know how to set about going on this work?
你知道怎样着手进行这项工作吗？
He knows how to go about repairing the machine.
他知道怎样着手修理这台机器。

set about 开始
set about one's work 开始工作

【近义词】

undertake 承担
get down 下来
attempt 企图
start out 开始
commence 开始
get 得到
approach 靠近
begin 开始
go about 着手做
set out 规划
start 开始

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