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：
-- The sun was setting rosy as she entered the wood, but she pressed on among the flowers.
-- The only thing he had to contend with was the colliers setting snares for rabbits, particularly the Stacks Gate colliers, on the Marehay side.
-- 'No use dusting it now,' he said, setting the thing against the wall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His picture, dark and gloomy, earnestly speechless on the wall, with the eyes intently looking at his son as they had looked when life departed from them, seemed to urge him awfully to the task he had attempted; but as to any yielding on the part of his mother, he had now no hope, and as to any other means of setting his distrust at rest, he had abandoned hope a long time.
-- He had no sooner turned the handle than the visitor saw Little Dorrit, and saw the reason of her setting so much store by dining alone.
-- And these involuntary starts of fancy were, after all, but the setting of a picture in which three people kept before him.
-- 'My dear Mrs Finching,' urged Clennam 'all so long ago and so long concluded, is it worth while seriously to ''I can't Arthur,' returned Flora, 'be denounced as heartless by the whole society of China without setting myself right when I have the opportunity of doing so, and you must be very well aware that there was Paul and Virginia which had to be returned and which was returned without note or comment, not that I mean to say you could have written to me watched as I was but if it had only come back with a red wafer on the cover I should have known that it meant Come to Pekin Nankeen and What's the third place, barefoot.'
-- A misconception on your part, a very great misconception if I may venture to call it so, seems to require setting right.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Jo tramped away, feeling that the pilgrims were not setting out as they ought to do.
-- Just as the party was setting out, Amy called over the banisters in a threatening tone, 'You'll be sorry for this, Jo March, see if you ain't.'
-- Poor Meg had a restless night, and got up heavy-eyed, un-happy, half resentful toward her friends, and half ashamed of herself for not speaking out frankly and setting every-thing right.
-- Everything was done at last, even to Amy's arranging dif-ferent colored soaps to match the different colored rooms, and Beth's setting the table for the first meal.
-- It must have been dreadfully hard, after working so long and setting your heart on selling your own pretty things.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Setting out in their canoes, after a perilous passage they discovered the island, and there they found an empty ivory casket, the poor little Indian's skeleton.
-- New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various times creating great havoc among the boats of different vessels, were finally gone in quest of, systematically hunted out, chased and killed by valiant whaling captains, who heaved up their anchors with that express object as much in view, as in setting out through the Narragansett Woods, Captain Butler of old had it in his mind to capture that notorious murderous savage Annawon, the headmost warrior of the Indian King Philip.
-- We were thus placed in the most imminent danger, as this gigantic creature, setting up its back, raised the ship three feet at least out of the water.
-- He loaded it, and rammed home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, "Down, down all, and give way! there they are!"
-- There, headed by the Lakeman, all but five or six of the foremastmen deliberately deserted among the palms; eventually, as it turned out, seizing a large double war-canoe of the savages, and setting sail for some other harbor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.
-- said Sikes, setting his teeth.
-- 'Quite enough, quite, thankye, Bill,' replied the Jew, putting down the glass after just setting his lips to it.
-- said the worthy matron, setting it down very hastily on the hob; 'a little stupid thing, that only holds a couple of cups!What use is it of, to anybody!Except,' said Mrs. Corney, pausing, 'except to a poor desolate creature like me.
-- Crawling forth, from day to day, to some green sunny spot, they have had such memories wakened up within them by the sight of the sky, and hill and plain, and glistening water, that a foretaste of heaven itself has soothed their quick decline, and they have sunk into their tombs, as peacefully as the sun whose setting they watched from their lonely chamber window but a few hours before, faded from their dim and feeble sight!The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though I KNOW it must be a scandalous falsehood, though I would not injure him so much as to suppose the truth of it possible, I instantly re-solved on setting off for this place, that I might make my sentiments known to you.'
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