In the winter of nineteen sixty-four, the Beatles packed up their electric guitars,drum kits, and rebellious ways and set off for America.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

The sheer cacophony of the clustered consonants in this line sets off -or has the potential to set off -- a powerful cluster of feelings.

这句诗中辅音全然不和谐，使人觉得,或者有意向让人觉得-，有力量的层叠之感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So they started off. They wanted to have-- They set up peace talks where a representative of the Eagle and a representative of the Rattler were set to meet and plan ways so that they could disarm and stop using cuss words and everything like that.

然后他们开始了，他们想…,他们进行和谈,老鹰队的代表,和响尾蛇队的代表,安排见面，制定方法,从而解除武装，不再说脏话,诸如此类的目标。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In nineteen ninety-nine, climbers set off to search for the remains of Mallory and Irvine.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

And I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

By 2012,they hope to set up a network of pick-up and drop-off locations for rented bicycles throughout New York City.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Hamid Karzai was declared the winner on Monday, roughly 24 hours after his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, pulled out of the run-off election set for November 7.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

And always on display, throughout the years, the clothes - the parade of flamboyant costumes set off by the austere attire of his striking female bodyguards.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

He introduced Islamic law in the country, including in the mostly non-Islamic south, helping to set off the second north-south civil war, which would last until 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

That has set off intense speculation here about the identity of the intended victim with published reports mentioning high-profile Congress Party politician Rahul Gandhi, whose father and grandmother, both prime ministers, were assassinated.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30