setting
/ˈsɛtɪŋ/ 名词 B1中文： 背景、环境、设置
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting (various senses). · the setting of the sun· the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- A level or placement to which a knob or control is set. · the volume setting on a television
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music). · Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem· Bach's setting of the Magnificat
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Our next view of him shall be as he descends the steps of his lodging-house immaculately and correctly clothed; calm, assured, handsome—in appearance the typical New York young clubman setting out, slightly bored, to inaugurate the pleasures of the evening.
“And the next thing you’ll be setting fire to the curtains with your signaling nonsense.”
And the doctor hurt me dreadfully when he was setting my ankle.
People have pretty well forgotten my other mistakes--the liniment cake and setting Diana drunk and flying into a temper with Mrs.
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