The runners set off at a blistering pace.
赛跑运动员如脱缰野马般起跑了。
He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia.
他开始了在新斯科舍为期19天的猎驼鹿行程。
I set off for a new adventure in Alaska on the first day of the new year.
我在新年第一天出发去阿拉斯加进行一次新的冒险。
They set off at a leisurely pace.
他们步态悠闲地出发了。
卡纳克以慢步小跑出发了。
He set off with a loping stride.
他迈着轻快的步伐出发了。
Election officials predict they'll set a new turnout record for an off-year election in Washington state.
选举官员预测，他们将在华盛顿州创下非大选年参加投票人数的新纪录。
Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering. It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats.
施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开，调查了日本的工厂来弄清楚他们怎么生产出了如此了不起的产品。
We set off at a smartish pace.
我们快步出发了。
When the Commerce Department reported last week that the trade deficit in June approached $50 billion, it set off a new round of economic doomsaying.
上周美国商务部报告称，6月份的贸易逆差接近500亿美元，这引发了新一轮的经济末日预言。
This phenomenon has set off an intensifying discussion at hospitals and medical schools about a problem perhaps best described as "distracted doctoring".
这种现象在医院和医学院引发了关于“分心诊断”这一问题的激烈讨论。
Supplies began running low and early this week, five set off on foot across snow fields; on Friday, after four days of trudging, they reached a working military radio center.
供应开始减少，本周早些时候，五个人徒步穿越雪地；周五，经过四天的跋涉，他们到达了一个正在工作的军事无线电中心。
As a child, he dreamed of growing up to be a surgeon, but set off on a musical path as a teenager.
在儿时,他梦想着长大成为一名外科医生,但却从十几岁时开始了音乐之路。
She set off at a gallop, leaving me to toil in the rear.
她骑马疾驰而去，丢下我在后面辛辛苦苦地赶着。
The mere rhythmic drone of a photocopier or the rumble from a hairdryer is enough to set her off.
复印机发出的有节奏的嗡嗡声或吹风机发出的隆隆声就足以使她发火。
Traditionally, college students hold a graduation ceremony to encourage themselves before they set off on their life journey.
传统上，大学生在踏上人生之旅之前会举行一次毕业典礼以鼓励自己。
Traditionally, college students hold a graduation ceremony to encourage themselves when they are about to set off on their life journey.
从传统意义上说，大学生举办毕业典礼是为了在开启他们人生旅程之前鼓励他们自己。
In 1919, for example, a humpback whale with a pair of leglike appendages over a metre long, complete with a full set of limb bones, was caught off Vancouver Island in Canada.
例如，1919年，在加拿大温哥华岛附近捕获了一条座头鲸，它有一对长达1米多的腿状附肢，还有完整的整套肢骨。
Tara and I set off from New Delhi a week later.
一星期后，塔拉和我从新德里出发。
With the address of a poor grandmother who had lived alone for years, we set off.
拿着一位独居多年的贫穷老奶奶的地址，我们出发了。
The boy set off on foot for the river and some time later came back with a bowl of water.
那男孩步行出发去河边，过了一会儿，带着一碗水回来了。
In an object-oriented system, when an object receives a message, it can fire off a set of events.
在面向对象的系统中，当一个对象接收到一条消息时，可能会发生一系列的事件。
This has set off a fight for exclusive adaptation rights to the books and articles published about the saga.
这打响了有关这一传奇事件相关书籍和报刊文章的“独家改编权”的争夺战。
A photograph of him in Paris getting into a friend's Porsche set off a heated discussion about whether it is possible to be socialist and rich.
还有一张照片就是关于他在巴黎钻入他朋友一辆保时捷，这引发了一场他是否是一名社会党成员以及富翁的热议。
A zero-sales situation might set off alarm bells—but the ringing phone feels like a normal interaction, not a failure.
零销售额为零还有可能会为你敲响警钟——而电话铃却让你觉得是种正常交流，并非失败。
Huntington's thesis set off a furious debate.
亨廷顿的理论引发了激烈的争论。
But that changed after a devastating earthquake and tsunami set off Japan's nuclear troubles.
但是自从地震和海啸引发了日本核麻烦后，事情就不一样了。
But that changed after a devastating earthquake and tsunami set off Japan's nuclear troubles.
但是自从地震和海啸引发了日本核麻烦后，事情就不一样了。
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