美 [set daʊn]
放置：将某物放在表面或地面上。
写下：将某事物写下来。
认为：将某人或某事物视为某种身份或性质。
set down // [ setting sets ]
动词词组 If a committee or organization sets down rules for doing something, it decides what they should be and officially records them. 制定
I like to make suggestions rather than setting down laws and forcing people to follow them.
我喜欢提建议而不是制定法律并强迫人们去遵守。
动词词组 If you set down your thoughts or experiences, you write them all down. 把…写下来
Old Walter is setting down his memories of village life.
老瓦尔特正在写他的乡村生活回忆录。
put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
同义词： write down / get down / put down
reach or come to rest
同义词： land
put or settle into a position
cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
同义词： put down / place down
... set [put／lay] aside把…放在一边，积蓄 set down放下，记下，制定 set back拨回(钟表)，使退步，阻碍，使挫折 ...
... send in 寄送某处进行处理 set down 记下；写下 athletic adj. 运动（员）的；体格健壮的 ...
set down 记下；放下；登记；（车辆/司机）停下车来让乘客下车；制定；规定 a series of 一连串的；一系列的“a series of +复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词用单...
... send in 寄送某处进行处理 set down 记下；写下 athletic adj. 运动（员）的；体格健壮的 ...
Passengers are set down at Molete Motor Park.
乘客在莫里特站下车。
The standards were set down by the governing body.
这些标准是由管理机构制订的。
Passengers may be set down and picked up only at the official stops.
乘客只有在正式车站方可上下车。
I was glad to see his two friends, Tom and Joe, coming down the road as the sun began to set.
VOA : special.2009.07.04
So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.
所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
Generally, there are a couple of elements that one might set down as in a Petri dish, and wait to see if some chemical reaction might take place, but not at all sure of what it might be.
一般来说，都有几个元素,作者会把它们像放入培养基中一样培养,等待某种化学反应的产生，但对可能的结果却一无所知。
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
He set the frog down and took out after that man but he never caught him.
VOA : special.2009.08.29
And I believe him. Why,I have seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor--Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog and sing out, "Flies,Dan'l,flies!"
VOA : special.2009.08.29
Gee had set down the first two batters before the Braves got six straight hits.
The 26-year-old Baghdatis recovered from a set down to reach his fourth quarterfinal in 2012.
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The current framework of Caltrans was set down by Assembly Bill 69 in 1972.
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