set about

set about

• • 开始，着手(工作等)：

    to set about doing something

    开始动手(或着手)做某事

  • 试着(做某事)，试图：

    I set about reading the book at one go.

    我曾试图一口气把这本书看完。

  • 散布(流言等)：

    to set about a rumour

    散布谣言

  • [口语]抨击；揍(某人)：

    to set about each other

    扭打，打成一团

• tell the time（或〈美〉tell time）
• renal calculuss
• sectionalisations
• crown jewels
• steel plate
• direct-current power supply
• tantric
• cee
• impersonators
• give ... a show
• characters per pica
• Bellabella,Bella Bellas
• Beaufort wind scale
• precipitabilities
• epruinose
• Kruskal's algorithm
• beat the bounds
• Pontic
• seringapatams
• nitrofurans
• not tear one's eyes off
• overslepts
• dubiosities
• dropped
• give one's life
• piddlers
• cluster bombing
• pubescent
• blackmailer
• secondary-schools
• intercalary growth
• elucidatory
• anagrammatizations
• over-socialization
• Punjab
• z.f.
• half-face
• Hermitian kernel
• fictionally
• hallelujahs
• differential brake
• fluorescence microscopes
• limited liability
• vignettists
• tabbied
• gasifying
• soft loan
• return nosing
• ankyloglossia
• excogitated
• reconvening
• Nessus shirt（或shirt of Nessus）
• blisteringly
• Jesus Christs
• conflict alert
• defer to
• Malvern Hill
• throw a sprat to catch a herring
• assisters
• naïf
• asparaguss
• phrenic nerves
• extricatest
• Dubliner
• superdominant
• interfaceable
• funniness
• halite
• auxiliary book
• derived protein
• scallywag
• trabeculate
• sense light
• disposures
• spinors
• JFK
• Rodin, Francois Auguste Rene
• lapelled
• elams
• linsang
• mirthlessness
• farcicalness
• orature
• testectomy
• impotency
• psywars
• juristic act
• piricularin
• squarrosely
• margravate
• square key
• nightcaps
• WOMENS
• Simeon Stylites, Sain
• intrusional
• turn (from sth) into sth
• Slave Coast
• confronter
• darkfield microscope
• be two / five / ten etc years sb's junior