set about doing

基本解释

After supper, he set about doing his homework.
他开始明白她的好心。
It would have been inconceivably dangerous even if he had known how to set about doing it.
这种事，哪怕他知道如何着手，也危险得不可思议。
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.
列出短期和长期目标清单，包括你将如何实现这些改变，实现自己的目标，然后着手去做。
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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.
他只对作出详尽的具体分析有兴趣,当然会有一些暗示，这对我们理解，麦克白造成了影响;,但是他没有,关于麦克白全文的系统解读。
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