然后设定好时间段来读邮件，回邮件。

Then set aside time to read and reply to messages.

youdao

然后设定期望的布局。

Then we set the desired layout.

youdao

决定你想要什么，然后设定一个目标，督促自己一直努力知道达到的那天。

Decide what you want, then set a goal and keep on racing until you finish it.

youdao

Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选