- 1挫折、阻礙、頓挫（讓進度停住或變糟的事）。
A setback is a problem that knocks you backwards: it delays you, stops you for a while, or leaves you worse off than you were. A team loses a key player; rain causes a setback on a building site; an exam grade is a setback, not the end of the story. It is ordinary English, at home in news as well as everyday talk, and only a little formal. It comes from the verb set back. That verb can also mean 'cost someone money' ('The repair set me back a month's pay'), which is close in spirit but not quite this noun. Architects also use setback for the way a tall building steps in as it rises — a different, technical sense.
From the word’s history
Deverbal from set back.
來自動詞片語 set back。
組成A noun made from the phrasal verb set back (to knock backwards, delay). Built the same way as drawback.
同家族的字
- set backthe phrasal verb this noun was made from
- drawbackthe same kind of noun, from a phrasal verb with back
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
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setbacknoun/ˈsɛtbæk/
- 1
An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
- After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
- DUKAT: I blame no one but myself. I was indiscreet. I compromised myself and have been punished accordingly. If someone under my command had behaved so outrageously, I would do the same thing to him. Besides, I assure you, this is only a temporary setback. Everything I have lost, I will regain. It's only a matter of time.
- 2
Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.
- 3
The required distance between a structure and a road.
- 4
architectureA step-like recession in a wall.
- Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
- 5
An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.
- 6
archaicA backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
- 7
archaicA backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
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