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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rapid and oblique glance at the moss on the trees, with an occasional upward gaze toward the setting sun, or a steady but passing look at the direction of the numerous water courses, through which he waded, were sufficient to determine his path, and remove his great- est difficulties.
-- See,' he said, pointing through the trees toward a spot where a little basin of water reflected the stars from its placid bosom, 'here is the 'bloody pond'; and I am on ground that I have not only often trav-eled, but over which I have fou't the enemy, from the rising to the setting sun.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where!
-- He was foremost at all races and cock fights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength always acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes, setting his hat on one side, and giving his decisions with an air and tone that admitted of no gainsay or appeal.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This I meant to do, not from wilfulness, but because I wished to leave Strickland setting out with I know not what fancies in his lonely soul for the unknown islands which fired his imagination.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Landing at the foot of a high wall of granite, he shook himself vigorously; and then, setting off running, soon disappeared behind a rocky point, which projected to nearly the height of the northern extremity of the islet.
-- But the next day, by taking the exact hour of the rising and setting of the sun, and by marking its position between this rising and setting, he reckoned to fix the north of the island exactly, for, in consequence of its situation in the Southern Hemisphere, the sun, at the precise moment of its culmination, passed in the north and not in the south, as, in its apparent movement, it seems to do, to those places situated in the Northern Hemisphere.
-- Between this setting and rising twelve hours, twenty-four minutes passed.
-- Now the question of setting fire to the explosive substance was raised.
-- However, Providence came directly to their aid, in an infinitesimal proportion it is true, but Cyrus Harding, with all his intelligence, all his ingenuity, would never have been able to produce that which, by the greatest chance, Herbert one day found in the lining of his waistcoat, which he was occupied in setting to rights.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we reached the door, the child setting down the candle, turned to say good night and raised her face to kiss me.
-- Not to be behind-hand in the bustle, Mr Quilp went to work with surprising vigour; hustling and driving the people about, like an evil spirit; setting Mrs Quilp upon all kinds of arduous and impracticable tasks; carrying great weights up and down, with no apparent effort; kicking the boy from the wharf, whenever he could get near him; and inflicting, with his loads, a great many sly bumps and blows on the shoulders of Mr Brass, as he stood upon the door-steps to answer all the inquiries of curious neighbours, which was his department.
-- There was a pool of clear water in the field, in which the child laved her hands and face, and cooled her feet before setting forth to walk again.
-- CHAPTER 16The sun was setting when they reached the wicket-gate at which the path began, and, as the rain falls upon the just and unjust alike, it shed its warm tint even upon the resting-places of the dead, and bade them be of good hope for its rising on the morrow.
-- The landlord now busied himself in laying the cloth, in which process Mr Codlin obligingly assisted by setting forth his own knife and fork in the most convenient place and establishing himself behind them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are accused of setting fire, so they are in prison.
-- Only sun-burnt street- pavers in bast shoes were sitting in the middle of the street, setting boulders into the hot sand; gloomy policemen in unstarched blouses and carrying revolvers attached to yellow cords, were lazily shuffling about, and tram-cars with drawn blinds on the sides exposed to the sun, and drawn by white-hooded horses, were running up and down the street.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The calm of evening was upon the world as I emerged from the great hall, and the scene was lit by the warm glow of the setting sun.
-- "Yet every now and then one would come straight towards me, setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him.
-- I perceived by this slowing down of its rising and setting that the work of the tidal drag was done.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Years afterwards she could bring the whole scene back again, as if it had been only yesterday the mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the Knight the setting sun gleaming through his hair, and shining on his armour in a blaze of light that quite dazzled her the horse quietly moving about, with the reins hanging loose on his neck, cropping the grass at her feet and the black shadows of the forest behind all this she took in like a picture, as, with one hand shading her eyes, she leant against a tree, watching the strange pair, and listening, in a half dream, to the melancholy music of the song.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am afraid I led that boy a dog's life, for as he was new to the work, I had a hundred opportunities of setting him right and putting him down, and I was not slow to profit by them.
-- The sun was within so few degrees of setting that already the shadow of the pines upon the western shore began to reach right across the anchorage and fall in patterns on the deck.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were the eyes of giant crustacea crouched in their holes; giant lobsters setting themselves up like halberdiers, and moving their claws with the clicking sound of pincers; titanic crabs, pointed like a gun on its carriage; and frightful-looking poulps, interweaving their tentacles like a living nest of serpents.
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