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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the singer could not be set going again.
-- "If you'll allow me I'll open it, and set you free."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beneath the wall of the house front there lies a channel, a fathom wide, paved with cobble-stones, and beside it runs a graveled walk bordered by geraniums and oleanders and pomegranates set in great blue and white glazed earthenware pots.
-- In a corner stands a box containing a set of numbered pigeon-holes, in which the lodgers' table napkins, more or less soiled and stained with wine, are kept.
-- A moment later the widow shows her face; she is tricked out in a net cap attached to a false front set on awry, and shuffles into the room in her slipshod fashion.
-- She is an oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot's beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouching figure are in keeping with the room that reeks of misfortune, where hope is reduced to speculate for the meanest stakes.
-- Her face is as fresh as a frosty morning in autumn; there are wrinkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in short, she is at once the embodiment and interpretation of her lodging-house, as surely as her lodging-house implies the existence of its mistress.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discov-ered unworthiness of one beloved and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.
-- Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her cloth-ing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head.
-- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps 37most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
-- A youngster who, but a few years ago, believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the Gospel, has now set himself at the head of the university; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of countenance.
-- But I will not be tempted to set myself in opposition to thee.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, andthe tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
-- Girls set a big store onknowing such things first."
-- Not content with Stuart alone, she had set her cap for Brent as well, and with a thoroughness thatoverwhelmed the two of them.
-- She says Virginians set quite a store by such things."
-- Mammyfelt that she owned the O'Haras, body and soul, that their secrets were her secrets; and even a hint of a mystery wasenough to set her upon the trail as relentlessly as a bloodhound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I saw him turning, I set my face towards home, and made the best use of my legs.
-- As she applied herself to set the tea-things, Joe peeped down at me over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and calculating what kind of pair we practically should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed.
-- Then will you set about it at once, blacksmith?"
-- The other, with an effort at a scornful smile, which could not, however, collect the nervous working of his mouth into any set expression, looked at the soldiers, and looked about at the marshes and at the sky, but certainly did not look at the speaker.
-- By that time, I was staggering on the kitchen floor like a little drunkard, through having been newly set upon my feet, and through having been fast asleep, and through waking in the heat and lights and noise of tongues.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gar-dener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing.
-- Then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a lit-tle way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
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