英 [set bæk] 美 [set bæk]
阻碍，延误：减缓进展，延迟进行。
花费：付出（金钱）。
set back // [ setting sets ]
动词词组 If something sets you back or sets back a project or plan, it causes a delay. 延误; 推迟
It has set us back in so many respects that I'm not sure how long it will take for us to catch up.
我们在很多方面都被延误了，不知道需要多久才能赶上。
动词词组 If something sets you back a certain amount of money, it costs you that much money. 使花费
A bottle of imported beer will set you back $7.
一瓶进口啤酒将花费你$7。
→see alsosetback
slow down the progress of; hinder
cost a certain amount
同义词： knock back / put back
使(建筑物)后缩：
... set aside留出，拨出(时间、金钱等)；把…置于一旁，不理会 set back推迟，延缓，阻碍；使花费 set down记下，写下 ...
... set aside 留出，拨出(时间、金钱等);把…置于一旁，不理会 set back 推迟，延缓，阻碍;使花费 hold out 维持，保持;坚持(要求)，不屈服 ...
... 胆怯的,怯懦的：timid 耽搁，延缓;推迟;使退步;阻碍;(把钟)往回拨：set back 单细胞(组成)的：unicellular ...
推迟；使…受挫折；把…往回拨
The bad weather set back the building programme by several weeks.
天气恶劣，建筑计划延误了几个星期。
Yet its report may well set back reform by obscuring the depth and breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate.
然而它发布的报告很可能会阻碍改革的步伐，因为国会要求它阐明挑战的深度和广度，而这一点却并没有被阐述清楚。
This organization warns this progress could be set back if measures are not taken to reverse the rise in obesity among young people.
该机构提醒，如果不采取措施逆转年轻人中不断增加的肥胖情况，这种进展可能会倒退。
Clinton's India visit, which began late Friday in Mumbai, has been filled with reminders of the Pakistani-based terrorist attacks on that city last November that killed 166 people and set back relations between the two South Asian powers.
VOA : standard.2009.07.20
And I want you to get used to this, that colon is important, it identifies the start, and then the set of indented things identify all the things at the same level, and when we reset back to the previous level, that's when we go back to where we were.
我希望大家熟悉这个结构，冒号很重要，它定义了开始的地方，然后缩进号代表着,同样一层的对象，当我们到了，不缩进的地方的时候，也就到了以前的状态。
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they got back to me and scheduled up, set up an interview with an alumni in the Jacksonville area.
他们通知我，安排一个时间，在杰克逊维尔区和一位校友面谈。
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Their music set records. Their first four songs were "I Want You Back","ABC", "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There."
VOA : special.2009.07.05
"Next spring, I'm going to release a book set in the modern day world but a fantasy based on Egyptian mythology, bringing all those old Egyptian gods back to life."
VOA : special.2009.10.12
"My car was actually lifted off the road and then set back down, " Black said.
In a quiet subdivision, I stopped at a gray clapboard house set back from the road.
The big set back I see is the lack of confidence that girls have.
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