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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
-- I would not set my foot in the same ship with thee again for a thousand pounds.'
-- I was now set up for a Guinea trader; and my friend, to my great misfortune, dying soon after his arrival, I resolved to go the same voyage again, and I embarked in the same vessel with one who was his mate in the former voyage, and had now got the command of the ship.
-- As my new patron, or master, had taken me home to his house, so I was in hopes that he would take me with him when he went to sea again, believing that it would some time or other be his fate to be taken by a Spanish or Portu-gal man-of-war; and that then I should be set at liberty.
-- The castle, which is at the entrance of the port, knew who we were, and took no notice of us; and we were not above a mile out of the port before we hauled in our sail and set us down to fish.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes; and the set of breakfast china is twice as handsome as what belongs to this house.
-- No difficulty arose on either side in the agreement; and she waited only for the disposal of her effects at Norland, and to determine her future household, before she set off for the west; and this, as she was exceedingly rapid in the performance of everything that interested her, was soon done. The horses which were left her by her husband had been sold soon after his death, and an opportunity now offering of disposing of her carriage, she agreed to sell that likewise at the earnest advice of her eldest daughter.
-- The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair, and that every threatening cloud would be drawn off from their hills; and the two girls set off together.
-- Margaret agreed, and they pursued their way against the wind, resisting it with laughing delight for about twenty minutes longer, when suddenly the clouds united over their heads, and a driving rain set full in their face. Chagrined and surprised, they were obliged, though unwillingly, to turn back, for no shelter was nearer than their own house.
-- They set off.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The feet, though small, were set flatly.
-- From his coat sleeves protruded a pair of linen cuffs of the same pattern, fastened with large, gold plate buttons, set with the common yellow agates known as "cat's-eyes."
-- She realised that hers was not to be a round of pleasure, and yet there was something promising in all the material prospect he set forth.
-- The streets, the lamps, the lighted chamber set for dining, are for me.
-- He had a little office in the place, set off in polished cherry and grill-work, where he kept, in a roll-top desk, the rather simple accounts of the place-- supplies ordered and needed.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.
-- Miss Watson would say, 'Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;' and 'Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry set up straight;' and pretty soon she would say, 'Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry why don't you try to be- have?'
-- Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use.
-- I set down again, a-shaking all over, and got out my pipe for a smoke; for the house was all as still as death now, and so the widow wouldn't know.
-- I set still and listened.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He set aside the hatchet and picked up the plane to make the wood smooth and even, but as he drew it to and fro, he heard the same tiny voice.
-- After choosing the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes.
-- He said no more, but taking his tools and two pieces of wood, he set to work diligently.
-- He kissed each Marionette in turn, even the officers, and, beside himself with joy, set out on his homeward journey.
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