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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that my aunt distressed Dora's aunts verymuch, by utterly setting at naught the dignity of fly-conveyance,and walking out to Putney at extraordinary times, as shortly after 558breakfast or just before tea; likewise by wearing her bonnet in anymanner that happened to be comfortable to her head, without at alldeferring to the prejudices of civilisation on that subject.
-- 'Give Betsey Trotwood's love to 592Blossom, when you come back; and whatever you do, Trot, neverdream of setting Betsey up as a scarecrow, for if I ever saw her inthe glass, she's quite grim enough and gaunt enough in her privatecapacity!'
-- She proceeded so quickly, when she got freeof the two currents of passengers setting towards and from thebridge, that, between this and the advance she had of us when shestruck off, we were in the narrow water-side street by Millbankbefore we came up with her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They did as they were desired; and by the time she judged it reasonable to have done with her boot, she had the comfort of farther delay in her power, being overtaken by a child from the cottage, setting out, according to orders, with her pitcher, to fetch broth from Hartfield.
-- It is the greatest absurdity Actually snowing at this moment! The folly of not allowing peo-ple to be comfortable at home and the folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!If we were obliged to go out such an evening as this, by any call of duty or business, what a hardship we should deem it; and here are we, probably with rather thinner clothing than usual, setting forward voluntarily, without excuse, in defiance of 138 Emmathe voice of nature, which tells man, in every thing given to his view or his feelings, to stay at home himself, and keep all under shelter that he can; here are we setting forward to spend five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow.
-- The ground covered with snow, and the atmosphere in that unsettled state between frost and thaw, which is of all others the most unfriendly for exercise, every morning beginning in rain or snow, and every evening setting in to freeze, she was for many days a most honourable prisoner.
-- What she was, must be uncertain; but who she was, might be found out; and setting 222 Emmaaside the 10,000 l., it did not appear that she was at all Har-riet's superior.
-- While he staid, the Martins were forgotten; and on the very morning of his setting off for Bath again, Emma, to dissipate some of the distress it occasioned, judged it best for her to return Elizabeth Martin's visit.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room inside was lighted only by the ruddy glow from the kiln mouth, which shone over the floor with the streaming horizontality of the setting sun, and threw upwards the shadows of all facial irregularities in those assembled around.
-- "Perhaps in setting a gin, I have caught myself.
-- It was impossible to send this letter till the next day; yet to quell her uneasiness by getting it out of her hands, and so, as it were, setting the act in motion at once, she arose to take it to any one of the women who might be in the kitchen.
-- These owners of the two most appreciative throats in the neighbourhood, within the pale of respectability, were now sitting face to face over a three-legged circular table, having an iron rim to keep cups and pots from being accidentally elbowed off; they might have been said to resemble the setting sun and the full moon shining vis-脙聽-vis across the globe.
-- She was conscious of having brought about this situation by a series of actions done as by one in an extravagant dream; of following that idea as to method, which had burst upon her in the hall with glaring obviousness, by gliding to the top of the stairs, assuring herself by listening to the heavy breathing of her maids that they were asleep, gliding down again, turning the handle of the door within which the young girl lay, and deliberately setting herself to do what, if she had anticipated any such undertaking at night and alone, would have horrified her, but which, when done, was not so dreadful as was the conclusive proof of her husband's conduct which came with knowing beyond doubt the last chapter of Fanny's story.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His hair, worn in _ailes de pigeon_, and duly powdered every morning by the barber from the Ecole Polytechnique, described five points on his low forehead, and made an elegant setting to his face.
-- The young medical students who came to the house noticed the drooping of his lower lip and the conformation of the facial angle; and, after teasing him for some time to no purpose, they declared that cretinism was setting in.
-- Vauquer, setting the plates round the table.
-- On the one hand, he beheld a vision of social life in its most charming and refined forms, of quick-pulsed youth, of fair, impassioned faces invested with all the charm of poetry, framed in a marvelous setting of luxury or art; and, on the other hand, he saw a sombre picture, the miry verge beyond these faces, in which passion was extinct and nothing was left of the drama but the cords and pulleys and bare mechanism.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave several hours to the serious consideration of this difficulty, but I was obliged to relin-quish all attempt to supply it, and wrapping myself up in my cloak, I struck across the wood towards the setting sun.
-- 'Night quickly shut in, but to my extreme wonder, I found that the cottagers had a means of prolonging light by the use of tapers, and was delighted to find that the setting of the sun did not put an end to the pleasure I experienced in watching my human neighbours.
-- 'In the meanwhile also the black ground was covered with herbage, and the green banks interspersed with in-numerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods; the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my nocturnal ram-bles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably shortened by the late setting and early ris-ing of the sun, for I never ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered.
-- I was oppressed by fatigue and hunger and far too unhappy to enjoy the gentle breezes of evening or the prospect of the sun setting behind the stu-pendous mountains of Jura.
-- Alas, how great was the contrast between us!He was alive to every new scene, joyful when he saw the beauties of the setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise and recommence a new day.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind tin lulls across the Flint River, the warmth of the April daywas ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
-- She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in gray broadcloth with a wideblack cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
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