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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus this entire set of books form a united series upon which Verne worked intermittently during ten years.
-- "Very well, set to work, then," said Glenarvan.
-- However, the only way to know was to examine the bottle, and Glenarvan set to work without further delay, so carefully and minutely, that he might have been taken for a coroner making an inquest.
-- "Very well, then, I'll set to work."
-- He appealed to the patriotism of his countrymen, placed his fortune at the service of the cause, built a ship, and manned it with a picked crew, and leaving his children to the care of his old cousin set off to explore the great islands of the Pacific.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which jutted out between two keen, gray eyes, set closely together and spar-kling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
-- Dr. Mortimer turned the manuscript to the light and read in a high, cracking voice the following curious, old-world narrative: 'Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it from his, I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here set forth.
-- Now, it opened into a broad space in which stood two of those great stones, still to be seen there, which were set by certain forgotten peoples in the days of old.
-- If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
-- As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they had but known why, at this par- ticular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third- class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.
-- At the foot of the ladder he had been pale enough; but when he set foot on the scaffold at the top, his face suddenly became the colour of paper, positively like white notepaper.
-- 'That means that you have set Aglaya a riddle!'
-- Rogojin's troop, who were only waiting for an excuse, set up a howl at this.
-- Well, gentlemen, I suppose I must set a good example!What vex-es me much is that I am such an insignificant creature that it matters nothing to anybody whether I have done bad ac-tions or not!Besides, which am I to choose?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And which of the gods was it that set them on to quar-rel?
-- I have set my heart on keep-ing her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments.
-- I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me.'
-- They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
-- Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work, not troubling in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs.
-- cried Huxter, and set off after him.
-- They appear to have jumped to the impossible conclusion that this was the Invisible Man suddenly become visible, and set off at once along the lane in pursuit.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Dear, oh, dear!When I come to think of it," said the Marionette to himself, as he once more set out on his journey, "we boys are really very unlucky.
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