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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Parsee perched himself on the elephant's neck, and at nine o'clock they set out from the village, the animal marching off through the dense forest of palms by the shortest cut.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Generations of Digams had collected test-papers and preserved them in the sacred Quiz Book; geniuses for detail had labored through the volume and marked with red pencil the problems most often set in the course of years.
-- While the assistant tagged the pig with a tin disk in its ear and restored it to the battery jar, Gottlieb set down its weight in a note-book, with the time of inoculation and the age of the bacterial culture.
-- The flat was full of literature and decoration: a bronze Buddha from Chicago, a rubbing of Shakespeare's epitaph, a set of Anatole France in translation, a photograph of Cologne cathedral, a wicker tea-table with a samovar whose operation no one in the University understood, and a souvenir post-card album.
-- On pretense of helping her set the tables, he had a moment with her, and whimpered, "Lord, you're so lovely!"
-- She had set out one box of geraniums and a cast-iron bench like those once beheld in cemetery plots; she had hung up two Japanese lanterns-- they were ragged and they hung crooked.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was ac-cused of 'taking part in conversations against the censorship, of reading a letter from Byelinsky to Gogol, and of knowing of the intention to set up a printing press.'
-- But in spite of this scornful reflection, he was by now looking cheerful as though he were suddenly set free from a terrible burden: and he gazed round in a friendly way at the people in the room.
-- And yet though I know before-hand that he won't, I set off to him and 芒聙娄' 'Why do you go?'
-- Then I got up in the morning, and put on my rags, lifted up my hands to heaven and set off to his excellency Ivan Afanasyvitch.
-- She set before him her own cracked teapot full of weak and stale tea and laid two yellow lumps of sugar by the side of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might have a misgiving that I am 'meandering' in stopping to saythis, but that it brings me to remark that I build these conclusions,in part upon my own experience of myself; and if it should appearfrom anything I may set down in this narrative that I was a child ofclose observation, or that as a man I have a strong memory of mychildhood, I undoubtedly lay claim to both of these characteristics.
-- I have set it down too soon, perhaps.
-- I don'tknow why one slight set of impressions should be moreparticularly associated with a place than another, though I believethis obtains with most people, in reference especially to theassociations of their childhood.
-- As to any recreationwith other children of my age, I had very little of that; for thegloomy theology of the Murdstones made all children out to be aswarm of little vipers (though there was a child once set in themidst of the Disciples), and held that they contaminated oneanother.
-- I had agreedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels- I forgetwhat, now- that were on those shelves; and for days and days I canremember to have gone about my region of our house, armed withthe centrepiece out of an old set of boot-trees-the perfect realisationof Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger ofbeing beset by savages, and resolved to sell his life at a great price.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was so busy in admiring those soft blue eyes, in talk-ing and listening, and forming all these schemes in the in-betweens, that the evening flew away at a very unusual rate; and the supper-table, which always closed such par-ties, and for which she had been used to sit and watch the due time, was all set out and ready, and moved forwards to the fire, before she was aware.
-- Emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having 'two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her hav-ing an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow in-deed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very hand-some summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea: a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.'
-- However, I do not mean to set up my opinion against your's and I am sure I shall not wish for the acquaintance of his wife.
-- Neither would Mr. Knightley's downright, decided, commanding sort of manner, though it suits him very well; his figure, and look, and situation in life seem to allow it; but if any young man were to set about copying him, he would not be sufferable.
-- 'If I had set my heart on Mr. Elton's marrying Har-80 Emmariet, it would have been very kind to open my eyes; but at present I only want to keep Harriet to myself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However she seemed to have a short cut for getting back to cheerfulness, and set her face to signify archness.
-- If report spoke truly they were as hardy, merry, thriving, wicked a set as any in the whole county.
-- In London, twenty or thirty-years ago are old times; in Paris ten years, or five; in Weatherbury three or four score years were included in the mere present, and nothing less than a century set a mark on its face or tone.
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