set in motion

英 [set ɪn ˈməʊʃn]

美 [set ɪn ˈmoʊʃn]

网络  掀动; 开动

英英释义

verb

• get going
  1. launch a career
  2. Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process
  Synonym:launch

双语例句

• Her sharp, aggressive tone set in motion the events that led to her downfall.
  她那咄咄逼人的尖锐语调拉开了导致她垮台的事件的序幕。
• You see, our stort was set in motion before I was even born.
  你知道，我们的故事在我初生之前就开始了。
• Events have been set in motion that cannot be undone, and dark things will come to pass.
  所有将发生的事都已经开始并无法更改了，黑暗也将再临。
• Instead, nature likely sped up a process set in motion by human actions.
  但是自然因素反而可能加速了人类活动引起的地面塌陷进程。
• Soldier, banker, and political scientist, he set in motion an agrarian nation's transformation into an industrial power.
  救死扶伤，银行家和政治科学家，他启动农业国转变为一个工业强国。
• The plan we set in motion so long ago cannot be stopped by any mortal agency.
  我们设置的这个计划已经运转了很长时间，任何人类的力量都无法阻止。
• So the wheels were set in motion.
  随后我就着手开始行动。
• Then Don Feuerstein, head of Salomon's legal department, and Lipton went off and began to set in motion the wheels of filing for bankruptcy.
  随后，所罗门法律部负责人唐•弗耶斯坦（DonFeuerstein）和利普顿走了出去，开始着手准备申请破产保护。
• He has started to shake and rotate faster and therefore the tectonic plates are set in motion.
  他已经开始摇晃并加速旋转以开始板块运动了。
• Were what has been set in motion unfrozen.
  原已设定的动中之物是否未被冻住。