喜樂美語

原始詞典資料21 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

set upverb/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/

  • 1

    To make ready for use.

    • We set up the sprinkler.
  • 2

    To arrange logically.

    • Set up my CD collection.
  • 3

    To cause to happen.

    • Even a minor change can set up new bugs.
    • England's famous victory sets up a meeting with Sweden in Samara on Saturday
  • 4

    To trap or ensnare.

    • I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.
  • 5

    To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.

    • The election was set up!
  • 6

    To prepare or get ready.

    • Used with an implied object obvious from context.
    • Give me a minute — I'm still setting up.
  • 7

    To gel or harden.

    • Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
  • 8

    To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.

    • The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.
另外 12 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.

    • Winning the lottery has set them up for life.
    • A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.
  • 10

    To establish someone in a business or position.

    • After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.
    • She set herself up as an interior designer.
  • 11

    informalcriminologyhuman-scienceslawTo trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.

    • They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.
  • 12

    To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).

    • M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day.
  • 13

    To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.

  • 14

    hobbieslifestylesportsTo create a goalscoring opportunity (for).

    • Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.
    • On 71.05, Portu brilliantly set up Yangel Herrera, only for Marc-André ter Stegen to make a sensational save.
  • 15

    datedTo begin business or a scheme of life.

    • to set up in trade; to set up for oneself
  • 16

    To profess openly; to make pretensions.

    • 1744 (first printed) Jonathan Swift, On the Testimony of Conscience those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part
  • 17

    To found; to start (a business, scheme)

    • With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.
  • 18

    boxinggovernmenthobbiesTo deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.

    • When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up.
    • Writer Danny Wamboldt of Ring magazine said, "Only Willie knew how to set up his opponents masterfully and then move in." Wamboldt, a former New England bantamweight champion and current national president of the Veteran Boxers Association, said that one of Pep's opponents said of his dazzling speed: "It was the first time he had been surrounded by one man."
  • 19

    To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.

    • Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]
  • 20

    obsoletemediaprintingpublishingSynonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)

set upadj/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/

  • 1

    In a position to function; ready.

    • Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。