He set about doing his homework.

他开始着手做家庭作业。

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To begin some activity is to set about doing it.

以上的三个事件都是记忆进行思维活动的例子。

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She set about doing some cleaning after breakfast.

她用过早餐后立即着手打扫卫生。

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He is simply interested in saying as much as he can about certain local effects, certainly with the implication, possibly, that this has a bearing on our understanding of, ; let's say, the whole of Macbeth; but he doesn't set about doing a systematic reading of the whole of Macbeth.

他只对作出详尽的具体分析有兴趣,当然会有一些暗示，这对我们理解，麦克白造成了影响;,但是他没有,关于麦克白全文的系统解读。

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Nadal raced through a love service game and immediately set about doing what he had failed to manage in the previous game.

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Someone else may have previously enjoyed something like badminton or would like to try something new so we might look at how they could set about doing that - everyone is different.

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Taking no chances, these governments also set about crushing political Islam, doing away with politicians or parties that might be encouraged by the example of Iran's Islamic republic to bring together religion and politics in their own pious but secular countries.

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