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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The western side was illumined by the rays of the setting sun, and peaks and glaciers flashed back his golden beams with dazzling radiance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had three encouragements - 1st, a smooth, calm sea; 2ndly, the tide rising, and setting in to the shore; 3rdly, what little wind there was blew me towards the land.
-- I did my utmost, by setting my back against the chests, to keep them in their places, but could not thrust off the raft with all my strength; neither durst I stir from the posture I was in; but holding up the chests with all my might, I stood in that manner near half-an-hour, in which time the rising of the water brought me a little more upon a level; and a little after, the water still-rising, my raft floated again, and Ithrust her off with the oar I had into the channel, and then driving up higher, I at length found myself in the mouth of a little river, with land on both sides, and a strong current of tide running up.
-- At the same time it happened, after I had laid my scheme for the setting up my tent, and making the cave, that a storm of rain falling from a thick, dark cloud, a sud-den flash of lightning happened, and after that a great clap of thunder, as is naturally the effect of it.
-- In the next place, we are to observe that among the many things which I brought out of the ship, in the several voy-ages which, as above mentioned, I made to it, I got several things of less value, but not at all less useful to me, which I omitted setting down before; as, in particular, pens, ink, and paper, several parcels in the captain's, mate's, gunner's and carpenter's keeping; three or four compasses, some mathematical instruments, dials, perspectives, charts, and books of navigation, all which I huddled together, whether I might want them or no; also, I found three very good Bibles, which came to me in my cargo from England, and which I had packed up among my things; some Portuguese books also; and among them two or three Popish prayer-books, and several other books, all which I carefully secured.
-- - This day I went to work with it according-ly, and got two shores or posts pitched upright to the top, with two pieces of boards across over each post; this I fin-ished the next day; and setting more posts up with boards, in about a week more I had the roof secured, and the posts, standing in rows, served me for partitions to part off the house.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will be setting your cap at him now, and never think of poor Brandon."
-- Poor Brandon!he is quite smitten already, and he is very well worth setting your cap at, I can tell you, in spite of all this tumbling about and spraining of ankles."
-- Her systems have all the unfortunate tendency of setting propriety at nought; and a better acquaintance with the world is what I look forward to as her greatest possible advantage."
-- His setting off in such a hurry seems very like it.
-- The setting always casts a different shade on it, you know."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once, when she was fumbling at the little clamp, having made a slight error in setting in the leather, a great hand appeared before her eyes and fastened the clamp for her.
-- The barkeeper was setting out the glasses and bottle before them, and they now poured out the draught as they talked, Drouet filling his to within a third of full, as was considered proper, and Hurstwood taking the barest suggestion of whiskey and modifying it with seltzer.
-- "That's a pretty ring you have," he said, touching a commonplace setting which adorned the hand holding the card he had given her.
-- Frequently there is a period between the cessation of youthful accretion and the setting in, in the case of the middle-aged man, of the tendency toward decay when the two processes are almost perfectly balanced and there is little doing in either direction.
-- A slow, black boat setting out from the pier at Twenty-seventh Street upon its weekly errand bore, with many others, his nameless body to the Potter's Field.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him.
-- When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering-oar.
-- I been setting here talking with you all night till you went to sleep about ten minutes ago, and I reckon I done the same.
-- Pretty soon I found a man out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot- line.
-- Pretty soon a splendid young man come gallop-ing down the road, setting his horse easy and looking like a soldier.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They said so much that, finally, the Carabineer ended matters by setting Pinocchio at liberty and dragging Geppetto to prison.
-- she answered, setting the two jugs on the ground before him.
-- Just see: The sun is setting and I must leave you and run.
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