set the scene

基本解释

Go for the sweetness." Choose the time of day that works for both of you; maybe set the scene with some candlelight, romantic music or whatever helps you both get into the mood.
选择你们都合适的时间，也许来些烛光美妙音乐或者随便什么能让你们进入情绪的东西。
If such an opportunity is available to you, take it; your advocate will then be equipped to set the scene for your session with the executive—or to make the introduction if one is needed.
如果你有这样的机会，请抓住；你的支持者将为你打造与他们公司高管会晤的的场景-或引荐必要的人员。
She said a close above the 900 level Monday, with a high degree of participation, would set the scene for a push higher.
她接着说，周一指数接近超过900点，并伴有很高的参与度将促使股票攀升。
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Now let me set the scene.
接下来让我们设想一个场景。
耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选
The particular dialogue that we're going to reading,the Phaedo, is set at the death scene of Socrates.
我们要学习的这篇对话,斐多篇,就将场景设定在苏格拉底临死前的一幕
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After the long sway of Theocritus' and Virgil's pastorals, ; of course Christianity entered the scene,a new dispensation; and Christianity began to load this pastoral literary tradition with its own set of associations.
在维吉尔等两人对田园诗的长久统治之后，基督教义作为新的统治思想兴起了;,并且开始以它自身的一套体系,附在田园诗的文学传统之上。
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To lay the foundation for his doctrine, Marx set the scene of a world mismanaged by the bourgeoisie.
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