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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He staggered and set off back to the "Coach and Horses" forthwith, leaping over the deserted Huxter, who was now sitting up, on his way.
-- But his temper, at no time very good, seems to have gone completely at some chance blow, and forthwith he set to smiting and overthrowing, for the mere satisfaction of hurting.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet how one could have set eyes on so singular a face and yet have forgotten the precise occasion, passed my imagination.
-- 'I wish I'd never set eyes on your infernal island.
-- He had the squarest and most resolute face I ever set eyes upon.
-- The beach was of dull-grey sand, and sloped steeply up to a ridge, perhaps sixty or seventy feet above the sea-level, and irregularly set with trees and undergrowth.
-- The three muffled men, with the clumsiest movements, scrambled out upon the sand, and forthwith set to landing the cargo, assisted by the man on the beach.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight.
-- 'Up, when a man speaks, or I will set that coat ablaze!'
-- 'They never do what they set out to do.
-- he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.
-- He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.
-- In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- I understand not your allusions about lines and an-gles; and I leave expounding to those who have been called and set apart for that holy office.
-- None can say they have ever known me to neglect my gifts!I am thankful that, though my boyhood may be said to have been set apart, like the youth of the royal David, for the purposes of music, no syl-lable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
-- She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set of her charms.
-- An inquiry was set on foot, and after diligent investigation they came upon his traces.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ironic philosopher reflects with a smile that Sir Walter Raleigh is more safely inshrined in the memory of mankind because he set his cloak for the Virgin Queen to walk on than because he carried the English name to undiscovered countries.
-- And presently Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz produced the work which finally set at rest the misgivings of all lovers of art.
-- It is true I knew him more intimately than most: I met him first before ever he became a painter, and I saw him not infrequently during the difficult years he spent in Paris; but I do not suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Tahiti.
-- Mrs. Strickland did not talk much, but she had a pleasant gift for keeping the conversation general; and when there was a pause she threw in just the right remark to set it going once more.
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