set是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 一套， 一副， 装置， 接受机v. 提出， 调整， 日落，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.
-- Its feet, observable beneath the ample folds of the garment, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set here and there with shin-ing icicles.
-- The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.
-- Mrs Cratchit made the 62 Sons and Loversgravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dust-ed the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
-- At last the dishes were set on, and grace was said.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands A tale of two citiesadjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revo-lution.
-- 'Keep where you are,' the guard called to the voice in the mist, 'because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime.
-- By that time, there was only one adventurous traveller left be congratulated: for the two others had been set down at their respective roadside destinations.
-- He set down his glass untouched.
-- The man who had left his saw sticking in the firewood he was cutting, set it in motion again; the women who had left on a door-step the little pot of hot ashes, at which she had been trying to soften the pain in her own starved fingers and toes, or in those of her child, returned to it; men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces, who had emerged into the winter light from cellars, moved away, to descend again; and a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more nat-40 A tale of two citiesural to it than sunshine.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all.
-- 'God bless me!What wooden scaffolding is that which they have set up there?'
-- * Herostratus, or Eratostratus an Ephesian, who wan-tonly set fire to the famous temple of Diana, in order to commemorate his name by so uncommon an action.
-- He begged permission of the worthy audience, and set his spectacles on his nose.
-- A motley phantasmagoria presents itself before him, which he describes in a few satirical touches, yet without expressing his opinion openly: he tells the people enough to set them all thinking and guessing; but in order to hurt nobody, he wraps his witty oracular judgments in a transparent veil, or rather in a lurid thundercloud, shooting forth bright sparks of wit, that they may fall in the powder-magazine of the ex-pectant audience.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said to himself; and an inner voice told him he must not go, that nothing could come of it but falsity; that to amend, to set right their relations was impossible, because it was impossible to make her attractive again and able to inspire love, or to make him an old man, not susceptible to love.
-- The first thing to do to set his heart at rest was to accomplish what he had come to Moscow for.
-- When he thought of her, he could call up a vivid picture of her to himself, especially the charm of that little fair head, so freely set on the shapely girlish shoulders, and so full of childish brightness and good humor.
-- She gave him her hand, and they set off side by side, going faster and faster, and the more rapidly they moved the more tightly she grasped his hand.
-- "Well, shall we set off?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He mechanically set about making the preparations for departure.
-- They were going to Dover; good!To Calais; good again!After all, Passepartout, who had been away from France five years, would not be sorry to set foot on his native soil again.
-- Not only the members of the Reform, but the general public, made heavy wagers for or against Phileas Fogg, who was set down in the betting books as if he were a race-horse.
-- Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his design of going round the world, nor the circumstances under which he set out; and the general only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity and a lack of sound common sense.
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