She set herself to finish her homework.

她竭力设法做完家庭作业。

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Knowing the life fleeting, she set herself to enjoy if as best as she could.

她知道这种日子转瞬即逝，于是让自已尽情地享受。

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She set herself to adoring Marius as something charming, luminous, and impossible.

她开始把马吕斯当作一种动人的、光明灿烂的、不可能的东西来崇拜。

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The Lady had claimed for herself a remarkable set of powers, but she wasn't yet ready to use them.

女士要求给她自己一系列权力，但是她并未做好准备使用这些权力。

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Jellyby from "Bleak House, " that little tornado of conceit and self-righteousness who set herself to rehabilitating the world as she neglected her own family.

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It's really an example of how she is trying to set herself up as a national leader, and, for example, she's also, on this same trip, going to the Israeli Knesset to give a speech, and she is the highest-ranking woman American official ever to speak to the Israeli Parliament.

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