set down

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To write. idiomatic,transitive
    — I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.
  2. To fix; to establish; to ordain. transitive
    — This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
  3. To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight. UK,especially,transitive
    — They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
  4. To land. ambitransitive
    — The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.
  5. To humiliate. obsolete,transitive
    — “I,” said Binet, “once saw a piece called the ‘Gamin de Paris,’ in which there was the character of an old general that is really hit off to a T. He sets down a young swell, who had seduced a working girl, who at the end———”
  6. To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as. transitive
    — I set him down as an idiot.

词形变化

sets down present,singular,third-person setting down participle,present set down participle,past set down past
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