| 单词 | set sb up |
| 释义 | set sb up set sb up (BENEFIT) — phrasal verb with set /set/ verb (PRESENT TENSE setting, PAST TENSE AND PAST PARTICIPLE set) F0 to provide the money that someone needs for an important task or activity that is expected to last a long time: » Winning the lottery has set them up for life.Thesaurus+: ↑Giving, providing and supplyingF0 to provide someone with the energy or health that you need for a particular period of time: » A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.Thesaurus+: ↑Treating and caring for people set sb up (ESTABLISH) — phrasal verb with set /set/ verb (PRESENT TENSE setting, PAST TENSE AND PAST PARTICIPLE set) ► F0 to establish someone or yourself 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.Thesaurus+: ↑Recruiting staff, applying for and accepting jobs set sb up [often passive] INFORMAL (DECEIVE) — phrasal verb with set /set/ verb (PRESENT TENSE setting, PAST TENSE AND PAST PARTICIPLE set) ► F0 to trick someone in order to make them do something, or in order to make them seem guilty of something that they have not done: » They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.Thesaurus+: ↑Cheating and tricking , ↑Plotting and trapping |
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