英语释义

• put in motion or move to act;

  "trigger a reaction"

  "actuate the circuits"

• direct attention to, as if by means of contrast;

  "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"

  "I set off these words by brackets"

• leave;

  "The family took off for Florida"

• provoke or stir up;

  "incite a riot"

  "set off great unrest among the people"

• make up for;

  "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"

• set in motion or cause to begin;

  "The guide set the tour off to a good start"

• cause to explode;

  "We exploded the nuclear bomb"

片语

Equitable set-off衡平抵销

set out出发；开始；陈述；陈列

insolvency set-off破产抵销

set loose出发；使爆炸；引起；（使）开始（做某事）；释放

claims set-off相互抵销债权

set sth off使爆炸；点缀；平衡

SET AUTOTRACE OFF关闭

set key off关闭图片右上角到图例

set-off bench支台

set sb off doing翻译

set-off reel防粘脏卷筒衬纸

英汉例句

• the move set off a media firestorm, particularly in the blogosphere.

  这一行动引起媒体热议，尤其是在博客圈。

• in the morning, we pack up the boat and set off through the icy sea back to kimmirut.

  第二天早上，我们在船上装好东西，出发穿过冰海回到吉米如特。

• within days they will set off again to seek their prey.

  几天后海盗们将再度出发寻找他们的「猎物」。

• they set off again - and promptly ran out of fuel.

  他们又出发了，可是突然汽油用完了。

• some fear that speaking out about the need for expenses-related sackings could set off a wave of retribution that could eventually engulf them too.

  一些人害怕说出需要相关开支证据，可能会引起应得的惩罚风波，最后也把他们全都吞噬完。

• the liberty sun, which set off from houston, had already delivered thousands of tonnes of food aid to a port in sudan and was en route to deliver more aid to mombasa.

  从休斯顿出发的自由太阳号已经向苏丹的一个港口运送了数以千吨的救援食品，并正行驶在给蒙巴萨运送更多的援助物资的途中。

• i set off for the valley, trusting to luck.

  我动身去山谷了，一切全凭运气。

• if this happens to you, or happens to other people in the company who are at your pay grade, this should set off some warning bells.

  如果这一切发生在你身上，或者是发生在与你同样薪酬等级的其它同事身上，这就可以算作某种程度上的征兆了。

• feeling like a complete wimp for ever having asked, i set off back up the slope.

  我这么问了后，感觉自己就像废物，只能重新出发回到山坡上。

• anthony picked himself up and set off along the track.

  安东尼自己慢慢爬起来，又开始沿着跑道跑下去。

• fired up by this encounter, we set off for croatia and the adriatic.

  在这次会见的鼓舞下，我们出发前往克罗地亚和亚得里亚海。

• people set off fireworks and tooted their car horns.

  人们点燃烟花，按响汽车喇叭。

• we set off again at a more sedate pace.

  我们重新上路了，步调更加从容。

• the president「s envoy set off on another diplomatic trip.

  总统的使节开始了又一次外交之旅。

• all this prompted the national union of millers and tortilla makers, which set off the latest panic, to backtrack.

  以上这些动作都促使磨坊主与玉米饼制造者全国联盟消停，正是这个联盟引起了这次最新的恐慌。

• but the food crisis that spring, which set off riots in at least a dozen countries, prompted the spree.

  但是那年春天的粮食危机加速了这种交易，这次危机引起了至少十几个国家的动乱。

• she set off at a cracking pace to mr ramzan」s superstore.

  她飞速赶往拉姆赞先生的大型商场。

• the material does not set off any alarms.

  那种材料不会引发任何警报。

• we set off to see the pyramids and sphinx.

  我们出发去看金字塔和狮身人面像。

• nichols set off for his remote farmhouse in connecticut.

  尼科尔斯动身去他在康涅狄格州的偏僻农舍了。

• the wife set off immediately to see a famous lawyer.

  妻子立刻出发去找一位着名的律师。

• the findings set off many people thinking.

  这些发现引起许多人思索。

• he left india april 14 for norway from where the team went to a russian training camp and then they set off for the north pole on skis, " she said.

  她说：「他4月14日离开印度，前往挪威。 然后，探险队从挪威出发，到达俄罗斯的训练营，接着，他们开始滑雪向北极进军。」

• the crisis has set off a wave of nationalist feelings in quebec.

  这一危机已在魁北克激起了一波民族独立主义情绪。

• they set off more per person each new year than any other country in the world.

  每个新年，他们每人比世界其它国家的人燃放更多的烟花。

• these findings shocked the endocrinology community and set off a new wave of research.

  这些研究结果轰动内分泌学界，引起新一波研究热潮。

• i left my car in a lay-by and set off on foot.

  我把车留在路侧停车带，徒步而行。

• we went to bed to rise early the next day and set off along the great ocean road, which stretches for around 160 miles along the coast between adelaide and melbourne.

  我们早早上床睡觉，第二天早起后出发驶上大洋路，这条路从阿德雷德到墨尔本，沿着海岸线延伸160英里。

• the next day he and darwin set off to northern wales where sedgwick gave him a crash course in field geology.

  次日，他与达尔文出发去威尔士北部，在那里塞奇威克给他进行地质学野外作业速成训练。

相似词

actuate开动（机器等）；促使，驱使；激励（人等）

相反词

cut缩减的；割下的；雕过的

cut out切断；删去；停止；关掉

deactivate使无效；使不活动；遣散；复员

kill杀戮；屠杀

shut off切断；关掉

turn off关掉，关闭；拐弯，使转变方向；使失去兴趣