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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Sir," said I to Captain Nemo, "to you belongs the honour of first setting foot on this land."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were laughing at their mother, who, dressed in a summer material of black and purple stripes, and wearing a hat of purple straw, was setting forth with much more of the shyness and trepidation of a young girl than her daughters ever felt, walking demurely beside her husband, who, as usual, looked rather crumpled in his best suit, as if he were the father of a young family and had been holding the baby whilst his wife got dressed.
-- It all seemed very happy, as if they were setting out.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, God confound you, Mr. Lockwood!I wish you were at the ' commenced my host, setting the candle on a chair, because he found it impossible to hold it steady.
-- One state resembles setting a hungry man down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice; the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks: he can perhaps extract as much enjoyment from the whole; but each part is a mere atom in his regard and remembrance.
-- Heathcliff arrived underneath just at the critical moment; by a natural impulse he arrested his descent, and setting him on his feet, looked up to discover the author of the accident.
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