setting

setting

英[ˈsetɪŋ]美[ˈsetɪŋ]

n.环境，情节背景，调节点，乐曲，底座，一套餐具；

v.放置，设置，使处于某种状况（set的现在分词形式）；

复数：settings;

例句

The company is no long setting the pace in the home computer market.这家公司再也不能在国内计算机市场上独领风骚了。

Setting the results against those of the last election, we can see a clear improvement.把这次的选举结果和上次的相比较, 我们可以看到明显的进步。

simulated driving in a laboratory setting实验室环境下的模拟驾驶

They are going to get married, and what's more they are setting up in business together.他们就要结婚了, 而且还要一起做生意呢。

A visitor arrived just as we were setting out for the airport.我们正要前往机场时来了一位客人。

The children are setting fireworks off in the garden.孩子们在花园里燃放烟火。

Setting the chair aside, he sat on the floor.他把椅子搁到一旁, 坐在地板上。

Someone is always setting stories about that the Prince is to be married.有人总是在散布谣言说什么王子要结婚。

The teacher rallied the pupils before setting out for the museum.在出发参观博物馆之前, 教师把学生们集合起来。

The windows gleamed gold in the shine of the setting sun.窗子在落日的余晖中金光闪闪。

英语六级真题

This type of learning is not confined to museums or institutional settings.

my IDP walks her or him through the process of setting short-term goals directed toward accumulating new skills and experiences important for that career choice.

Quiet rural settings contribute a lot to long life.

Newspapers relay daily accounts of goal-setting prevalent in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street , yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-trumpeted practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis , and unethical （不道德的）behavior in general.

Setting realistic goals can turn a failing business into success

Businesses are less likely to succeed without setting realistic goals.

A retired member of the Public and Commercial Services Union, she is setting up one of 1,100 action groups with the support of Climate Solidarity, a two-year environmental campaign aimed at trade unionists.

And now, for the lighter side of the news, Europe is setting an example for the rest of the world, when it comes to food waste.

As countries continue setting goals of reducing emissions, greater steps need to be taken to have a noticeable effect on the surrounding environment.

Assumptions about genetic differences between people of different races could be particularly dangerous in a medical setting.

Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

In October 2000, the same month the survey was taken, the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs wrote in its publication Media Monitor that, in a recent month of TV news coverage of American youth, just 2% of teens were shown at home, and j

Internal recovery refers to the shorter periods of relaxation that take place within the frames of the work day or the work setting in the form of short scheduled or unscheduled breaks, by shifting at physical resources required for the initial task are t

It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.

Just like medical researchers use rats to test ideas for human medical treatments, botanists use plants that are relatively easy to grow in a lab or greenhouse setting to test their ideas for related species.

President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, issued a proclamation setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.

Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.

The Ebro Delta, in Spain, famous as a battleground during the Spanish civil War, is now the setting for a different contest, one that is pitting rice farmers against two enemies: the rice-eating giant apple snail, and rising sea levels.

This lawyer had fallen victim to the "don'ts syndrome"—a form of negative goals setting.

When college students were reminded of a time they had been excluded in a social setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friends—unless they were first given tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if it had human qualitie

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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环境;背景;地点

A particular setting is a particular place or type of surroundings where something is or takes place.

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(炉具、热水器等上可供调节的)挡，级，点，刻度

A setting is one of the positions to which the controls of a device such as a cooker, stove, or heater can be adjusted.

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一套餐具

A table setting is the complete set of equipment that one person needs to eat a meal, including knives, forks, spoons, and glasses.

英汉词典释义

n.

镶嵌; 镶嵌底座,（镶嵌宝石的）底座，底板，托板

环境

(某事、戏剧、小说等的)背景

装置、机器等定的速度, 高度, 温度等

(为诗等谱写的)乐曲

(日、月等)下落

（机器上调节速度、高度、温度等的）挡，级，点

（摆在桌上供一人用的）一套餐具

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the context and environment in which something is set;

2. the state of the environment in which a situation exists;

3. arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

4. the physical position of something;

5. a table service for one person;

6. mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place;

Adjective

1. (of a heavenly body) disappearing below the horizon;

行业词典

体育： 安装；装配；定位；加分赛；再赛办法；

哲学： 限定；setting-upon；

土木工程： 凝结；

法律： 安装；

电力： 整定；

电工： 整定；