set about something/somebody

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishset about something/somebody phrasal verb1 START DOING somethingto start doing or dealing with something, especially something that needs a lot of time and effort A team of volunteers set about the task with determination.set about doing something How do senior managers set about making these decisions?2 ATTACK literary to attack someone by hitting and kicking them They set about him with their fists. → set→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusset about doing something• Lou set about decorating their new house in blues and yellows.

单词	set about something/somebody
释义	set about something/somebody From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishset about something/somebody phrasal verb1 START DOING somethingto start doing or dealing with something, especially something that needs a lot of time and effort A team of volunteers set about the task with determination.set about doing something How do senior managers set about making these decisions?2 ATTACK literary to attack someone by hitting and kicking them They set about him with their fists. → set→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusset about doing something• Lou set about decorating their new house in blues and yellows.
随便看	theres nothing to stop from doing theres one born every minute theres only one thing for it theres room for improvement theres the rub theres to thereto thereunder thereupon There’ll always be an England there’ll be hell to pay there’s a fair chance (that)/of something there’s a good boy/clever dog etc there’s a/no future in something there’s always something there’s life in the old dog yet there’s method in/to somebody’s madness there’s money (to be made) in something there’s more to somebody/something than meets the eye there’s no (such thing as a) free lunch there’s no comparison there’s no danger of something there’s no denying (that/something) there’s no doing something there’s no escaping (the fact)