set about doing

基本解释

After supper, he set about doing his homework.
他開始明白她的好心。
It would have been inconceivably dangerous even if he had known how to set about doing it.
這種事，哪怕他知道如何著手，也危險得不可思議。
Second, make a list of short and long-range goals, including how you would realistically make these changes and attain your goals, then set about doing just that.
列出短期和長期目標清單，包括你將如何實現這些改變，實現自己的目標，然後著手去做。
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He is simply interested in saying as much as he can about certain local effects, certainly with the implication, possibly, that this has a bearing on our understanding of, ; let's say, the whole of Macbeth; but he doesn't set about doing a systematic reading of the whole of Macbeth.
他衹對作出詳盡的具躰分析有興趣,儅然會有一些暗示，這對我們理解，麥尅白造成了影響;,但是他沒有,關於麥尅白全文的系統解讀。
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Taking no chances, these governments also set about crushing political Islam, doing away with politicians or parties that might be encouraged by the example of Iran's Islamic republic to bring together religion and politics in their own pious but secular countries.
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David Cameron set about modernising the party with the sure touch of a man doing not just what he knows is expedient but also what he believes is right.
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Hotz posted his announcement online and once again set about finding the part of the system that he could manipulate into doing what he wanted.
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