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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he shot his arrow at the fox; but he missed it, and it set up its tail above its back and ran into the wood.
-- Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set out, and the same thing happened to him.
-- Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage was at first very prosperous.
-- Five hundred carpenters and engineers were im-mediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had.
-- The shout I heard was upon the arrival of this engine, which, it seems, set out in four hours after my land-ing.
-- The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, espe-cially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on 28 Gulliver's Travelsthe ground, and away he ran.
-- He replied, 'that, by the laws of the kingdom, I must be searched by two of his officers; that he knew this could not be done without my consent and assis- 31tance; and he had so good an opinion of my generosity and justice, as to trust their persons in my hands; that whatever they took from me, should be returned when I left the coun-try, or paid for at the rate which I would set upon them.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment, which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray.
-- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.
-- Surely, none of us in our sober senses and acquainted with figures, are to be told at this time of day, that one of the foremost elements in the existence of the Coketown working-people had been for scores of years, deliberately set at nought?
-- They walked in; and Sissy, having set two chairs for them, sped away with a quick light step.
-- Then they pressed about her, and bent over her in very natural attitudes, kissing and embracing her: and brought the children to take leave of her; and were a tender-hearted, simple, foolish set of women altogether.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A first-class chronometer made by Boissonnas, of Geneva, set at the meridian of Hamburg, from which Germans calculate, as the English do from Greenwich, and the French from Paris.
-- After the basaltic eruption was appeased and set at rest, the volcano, the force of which increased with that of the extinct craters, gave free passage to the fiery overflow of lava, and to the mass of cinders and pumice stone, now scattered over the sides of the mountain, like disheveled hair on the shoulders of a Bacchante.
-- "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old volcano were once more to set to work."
-- "So," he said, between his set teeth, "fatality will play me these terrible tricks.
-- It appeared to me that the Icelander had set aside all personal will and identity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Set the mind and the reason to cock it over the rest, and all they can do is to criticize, and make a deadness.
-- Clifford started the little engine, the man carefully turned the chair, and set it nose-forwards to the incline that curved gently to the dark hazel thicket.
-- If you were young, you just set your teeth, and bit on and held on, till the money began to flow from the invis-ible; it was a question of power.
-- Hilda set her jaw, and that meant something.
-- But I should never forget what they said about Ted, for he was as steady and fearless a chap as ever set foot on the cage, and it was as good as branding him a coward.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, Venetians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the shade alike taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire.
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