着手做某事zhe shǒu zuò mǒu shì
set about doing something; set out to do something; set about something
表明主张biǎo míng zhǔ zhāng
set up a claim to sth.
以身作则yǐ shēn zuò zé
set oneself an example to others
着手zhe shǒu
put one's hand to; set about
开始认真干kāi shǐ rèn zhēn gàn
setto
扬帆出海yáng fān chū hǎi
toset sail
死心塌地sǐ xīn tā dì
be dead set
摆桌子bǎi zhuō zǐ
to lay the table, toset the table
拨快bō kuài
set forward
原声例句
一间自己的房间
Perhaps the first thing she would find, setting pen to paper, was that there was no common sentence ready for her use.
也许她在落笔时会发现的第一件事就是没有可供她使用的常用句子。
新概念英语.英音版.第四册(译文)
I have known very few writers, but those I have known and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper.