set out

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

▪ I. set out phrasal verb [ setting out sets out ]
1. <I > to start an activity with a particular aim
• She set out with the aim of becoming the youngest ever winner of the championship.
• + to infinitive They set out to discover a cure for cancer.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Starting and beginning ↑Starting again
2. to start a journey
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Departing
 
• He set out to become chief executive.
• I don't set out to annoy him - it just seems to happen.
• He set out to crush all his enemies.
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▪ II. set off/out phrasal verb [ setting off/out sets off/out ]
<I > to start a journey
• What time will we have to set off for the station tomorrow?
• Jenny set off down the road on her new bike.
• They've just set off on a round-the-world cruise.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Departing
 
• When we heard he was ill, we set off straight away to see him.
• They set off before dawn.
• They set off on their desert crossing two days ago.
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