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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They're finelads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.
-- They were such resplendent uniforms, brave with shiningbuttons and dazzling with twined gold braid on cuffs and collars, the red and yellow and blue stripes on the trousers,for the different branches of the service, setting off the gray to perfection.
-- Setting the candle on the stand, she unlocked the door and in the wavering light she saw Rhett Butler, not aruffle disarranged, supporting her small, thickset father.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I left him," said Mike, "a setting on some doorsteps round the corner."
-- As we returned towards the setting sun we had yesterday left behind us, and as the stream of our hopes seemed all running back, I told him how grieved I was to think that he had come home for my sake.
-- I earnestly hoped and prayed that he might die before the Recorder's Report was made; but, in the dread of his lingering on, I began that night to write out a petition to the Home Secretary of State, setting forth my knowledge of him, and how it was that he had come back for my sake.
-- Not knowing that I saw them, and setting herself to get the better of them, she said quietly,--"Were you wondering, as you walked along, how it came to be left in this condition?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle-doves sang from the tall birches.
-- The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle.
-- When she heard this she started with rage; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride.
-- The second brother also met a man, who, when he found out what he was setting out upon, asked him what craft he meant to follow.
-- 258 Grimms' Fairy TalesLILY AND THE LION merchant, who had three daughters, was once setting A out upon a journey; but before he went he asked each daughter what gift he should bring back for her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The treasurer and admiral insisted that you should be put to the most pain-ful and ignominious death, by setting fire to your house at night, and the general was to attend with twenty thousand men, armed with poisoned arrows, to shoot you on the face and hands.
-- But hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial majesty's license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay.
-- They alighted out of the coach near a small foot-path in a field, and Glumdalclitch setting down my travelling box, I went out of it to walk.
-- We were boarded about the same time by both the pi-rates, who entered furiously at the head of their men; but 192 Gulliver's Travelsfinding us all prostrate upon our faces (for so I gave order), they pinioned us with strong ropes, and setting guard upon us, went to search the sloop.
-- When they meet an acquaintance in the morning, the first question is about the sun's health, how he looked at his setting and ris-ing, and what hopes they have to avoid the stroke of the approaching comet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I wish I could collect all the Facts we hear so much about,' said Tom, spitefully setting his teeth, 'and all the Figures, and all the people who found them out: and I wish I could put a thousand barrels of gunpowder under them, and blow them all up together!However, when I go to live with old Bounderby, I'll have my revenge.'
-- By dint of roaring at the top of his voice under a flaring gaslight, clenching his fists, knitting his brows, setting his teeth, and pounding with his arms, he had taken so much out of himself by this time, that he was brought to a stop, and called for a glass of water.
-- It is the drifting icebergs setting with any current anywhere, that wreck the ships.
-- The sun was setting now; and the red light in the evening sky touched every face there, and caused it to be distinctly seen in all its rapt suspense.
-- But, caution being necessary in communicating with him for there was a greater danger every moment of his being suspected now, and nobody could be sure at heart but that Mr. Bounderby himself, in a bullying vein of public zeal, might play a Roman part it was consented that Sissy and Louisa should repair to the place in question, by a circuitous course, alone; and that the unhappy father, setting forth in an opposite direction, should get round to the same bourne by another and wider route.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the setting sun, some distant shores were to be made out on the edge of the horizon.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am setting the hens in about a week.
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