几个以 set 为核心词的词组

由 周志高 提交于 周日, 03/15/2020 - 18:52

set off 有3种涵义：

  1.       When you set off, you start a journey. 启程；出发。注意这种用法，set off 相当于不及物动词，后面不直接跟宾语。
    1. Bill will set off for Shenzhen next Monday.
    2. The travelers set off on a new trip. 
  2. If something sets off something such as an alarm or a bomb, it makes it start working so that, for example, the alarm rings or the bomb explodes. 引爆（炸弹）；触发（警报）
    1. Anybody trying to enter this house will set off the alarm system.
    2. Someone set off a fire extinguisher.
  3. If something sets off an event or a series of events, it cause it to start happening. 引发；激起
    1. The government policy set off a major riot in that country.

 

set out 的涵义和用法：

  • When you set out, you start a journey. 出发；启程。这种情况下，set out 和 set off 是同义词。例如：
    • When setting out on a long walk, you’d better wear a pair of endurable boots.
    • When the poet set out for Lyonnesse it was winter season. 
  • If you set out to do something,  you start trying to do it. 开始努力做。例如：
    • Bill set out to be a doctor 4 years ago.
    • Great leaders don’t set out to be a LEADER. They set out to make a DIFFERENCE.  It’s never about the ROLE - always about the GOAL.
  • If you set things out, you arrange or display them somewhere. 摆放；陈列。例如：
    • You should set out your products attractively so that people will appreciate them.
  • If you set out a number of facts, beliefs, or arguments, you explain them in writing or speech in a clear, organized way. 阐述；阐明 
    • We don’t know your opinion. Could you set out your view briefly? 

 

set off 和 set out 都有“开始”的意思，那么它们之间有什么区别呢？

当 set off  和 set out 用来指“开始”一段旅途时，没有区别。

例如下面的填空题：

Bill set _____ (off/out) early to catch the train.

这里的空白处填写 off 或者 out 都可以，意思都是“动身”、“启程”。

但是，分析下面的句子：

  1. The delay of payment will set off a lawsuit.
  2. The smoke set off the fire alarm.
  3. The writer set out on chapter one of his novel.
  4. I set out to get my work done this afternoon.

细品上面四个句子，set off 是“激发”、“激起”，这个动作涉及到的 subject 和 object 之间的关系是因果关系。而 set out 则是指有意图的开始做什么。

大家看看下面这个填空题：

  • The parents set _______ (out / off) in search of their lost child.

这个填空题，究竟该填 out 呢？还是 off 呢？

正确答案是： out

虽然 set out 和 set off 都可以表示“开始”，但是 set out 不但有开始的涵义，还有“蓄意”、“努力”、“有目的”的涵义。

试比较下面的句子：

  • We will have to set off for the station at 2:00 this afternoon.
  • Jenny has just set off on a round-the-world cruise.
  • Mary set out to become a world champion.
  • That doctor set out to discover a cure for AIDS.
  • That theft set out to deceive an old lady.
  • He set out southwestward, made his way after great hardship to Palestine, found one friend there and set off again toward the west. 

 

再来辨析以下两个句子：

  1. They are setting out the tableware.  他们在摆设桌子。
  2. He set out the principles which we were to follow.  他制定出我们需要遵守的原则。
  3. The background set off the picture very imaginatively. 这副画的背景使得画非常有想象力。
  4. Her black dress set off her diamonds. 她黑色的裙子烘托突出了她的钻石。

这里的第一个句子里 set out 有“摆放、陈列”的涵义，第二个句子里的 set out 有“列出”、“制定”的涵义，而第三个第四个句子里的 set off 有“衬托”、“使突出”的涵义。

 

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