setting是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 镶嵌; 环境, 背景; (日月 ) 沉落，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers' benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people's mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through with-ered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreat-ing and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner.
-- Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night.
-- 'And then,' cried one of the girls,' Peter will be keeping company with some one, and setting up for himself.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore an odd little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass.
-- The hoarse messenger, uncom-fortably seated on a form after taking that refection, had dropped into a doze, when a loud murmur and a rapid tide of people setting up the stairs that led to the court, carried him along with them.
-- As a promising way of setting them right, half of the half-dozen had become mem-bers of a fantastic sect of Convulsionists, and were even then considering within themselves whether they should foam, rage, roar, and turn cataleptic on the spot thereby setting up a highly intelligible finger-post to the Future, for Monseigneur's guidance.
-- At the same time, the thin straight lines of the setting of the eyes, and the thin straight lips, 177and the markings in the nose, curved with a sarcasm that looked handsomely diabolic.
-- He moved from end to end of his voluptuous bedroom, looking again at the scraps of the day's journey that came unbidden into his mind; the slow toil up the hill at sunset, the setting sun, the descent, the mill, the prison on the crag, the little village in the hollow, the peasants at the fountain, and the mender of roads with his blue cap pointing out the 178 A tale of two citieschain under the carriage.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After obtaining his brother's address from Sergey Ivanovitch's footman, Levin was on the point of setting off at once to see him, but on second thought he decided to put off his visit till the evening.
-- Even supposing one parts from her, so as not to break up one's family life, still, can one help feeling for her, setting her on her feet, softening her lot?"
-- Behind the tender, setting the platform more and more slowly swaying, came the luggage van with a dog whining in it.
-- She felt that everything must be right of itself, and graceful, and nothing could need setting straight.
-- As he listened to Petritsky's familiar stories in the familiar setting of the rooms he had spent the last three years in, Vronsky felt a delightful sense of coming back to the careless Petersburg life that he was used to.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and London from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality.
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT FINDS OUT THAT, EVEN AT THE ANTIPODES, IT IS CONVENIENT TO HAVE SOME MONEY IN ONE'S POCKETThe Carnatic, setting sail from Hong Kong at half-past six on the 7th of November, directed her course at full steam towards Japan.
-- I am setting out for Bordeaux, and shall go to Bordeaux."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The troops ran among the huts, setting them alight with fantastic torches.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little room into which the young man walked, with yellow paper on the walls, geraniums and muslin curtains in the windows, was brightly lighted up at that moment by the setting sun.
-- 'I have mentioned already that Pyotr Petrovitch is just setting off for Petersburg, where he has a great deal of busi-ness, and he wants to open a legal bureau.
-- At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Push-kin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state.
-- Crossing the bridge, he gazed quietly and calmly at the Neva, at the glowing red sun setting in the glowing sky.
-- Drawing a breath, pressing his hand against his throb-bing heart, and once more feeling for the axe and setting it straight, he began softly and cautiously ascending the stairs, listening every minute.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The setting sun was glowing on the strange lady, overthe garden fence, and she came walking up to the door with a fellrigidity of figure and composure of countenance that could havebelonged to nobody else.
-- I ought toobserve, however, in explanation of that lady's state of mind, thatshe was much offended by Peggotty's tucking up her widow'sgown before she had been ten minutes in the place, and setting towork to dust my bedroom.
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