I have set the wheels in motion to sell their Arizona ranch.
我已着手出售他们在亚利桑那州的大农场。
His death set in motion a train of events that led to the outbreak of war.
他的死引发了一系列的事件,从而导致了战争的爆发。
Their migration may have been set in motion by an increase in population caused by a movement of peoples fleeing the desiccation, or drying up, of the Sahara.
他们的迁徙可能是人口增加引起的,这一人口增长是由人们逃离撒哈拉沙漠的干燥或干涸的迁移造成的。
The most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn't have to be a genius to set its wheels in motion.
然而,语言最非凡之处在于,一个人不必成为天才也能驾驭语言。
Indeed, important military shifts have already been set in motion that will be difficult if not impossible to reverse.
确实,军事上的重要改变已经在发生,要逆转这样的趋势,如果不是不可能的话,起码也是很困难的。
Initially the National Congress did improve relations and many minor superficial laws that promised unity were set in motion.
起初,国会确实有改善关系,许多微小、无足轻重的法案承诺要一同行动。
Let us merely note before going on that Kirilov reappears in other characters who themselves set in motion additional absurd themes.
在继续我们的论证之前,我们只须注意,基里洛夫又化作过其他人物,这些人物再次使得荒谬的主题运转起来。
Amid this flurry of historical fissions and fusions it is easy to overlook another, arguably more significant unification set in motion in spring 1861.
在这些历史的分分合合之中,另一件事情很容易被忽略,有些人认为这件始于1861年春天的事情才是一次更有意义的“统一”。
The condition is caused by extremely cold foods or beverages that touch the roof of the mouth and set in motion a chain of events.
这种情况产生于非常冷的食物或者饮料接触到口的底部和产生一系列的反应。
Yet for all the benign memories, Woodstock also set in motion other, more crass impulses.
然而在着所有祥和的记忆中,伍德斯托克也带来了种种原始的冲动。
It is difficult to say what life is going to be like in 100 years, but certain things have clearly been set in motion, among them climate change.
很难说100年后生活将会变成什么样子,但是很明显有些事已经初现端倪,包括气候的改变。
To handle performance management effectively in your organization, you want to focus on specific activities you can set in motion to handle problems when and if they occur.
为了有效地处理组织中的性能管理,您要将重点放在出现问题时采取的具体措施上。
Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson set in motion equipment shutdown procedures and, with crewmate Douglas Wheelock, installed a jumper cable to keep all the rooms cool.
宇航员特蕾西·考德威尔·戴森启动程序,关闭工作中的机器,同时同伴道格拉斯·惠洛克安装了跨接电缆,保持所有房间有较低温度。
The wider disputes the Moynihan Report set in motion are anything but ivory-tower squabbles.
莫伊尼汉报告引发的更广泛的争端绝非象牙塔般的争论,不是纯粹学术上的。
This moment would serve as the spark that set in motion a process of learning life lesson, molding me into the person you’re reading through your computer screen.
也正是这火花闪动的一刻助我开始学习生活课程。 最终把我塑造成你们现读到的我。
Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples.
快乐就像一块为了激起阵阵涟漪而丢进池塘的小石头。
Third, the U.S. cannot reverse the greater trends set in motion by globalization by altering the value of the yuan.
第三,美国并不能通过调整人民币汇率来逆转全球化趋势。
The Free Independent Traveler, or, FIT program, is going to be set in motion at the end of this month.
自由行,或者是说自由行项目,将在本月底启动。
I learned that a little more than a year ago-fourteen months, to be exact-and it was that realization, more than anything, that set in motion all that was to come.
一年多前,更确切点说是14个月前,我才慢慢明白过来,意识到这一点,比什么都重要。有些事正蓄势待发,山雨欲来。
In 19 months, Schultz has turned Starbucks upside down and, in doing so, set in motion a possible recovery.
在19个月中,Schultz已经让星巴克有了天翻地覆的变化,从而可能触发复苏。
When it is set in motion, the lack of atmosphere and hence air resistance mean the flag takes a long time to settle.
一旦旗子被动过,由于月球没有大气,也就没有了空气阻力,它反而要过很久才能停下来。
Roberts pulled up another Bing map for me, and set in motion a faster-than-real-time playback of one client's day.
罗伯茨给我看了另外一张地图,上面动态显示了快于真实时间的一个假释犯的一日行程。
The shift to farming also set in motion other important biological changes, notes biological anthropologist John Lukacs of the University of Oregon in Eugene.
向农业耕作的转变还启动了其他重要的生物变化,尤金市俄勒冈大学生物人类学家JohnLukacs特别提到。
At 10 PM that same night, a technician pressed a start button for the liquid gas pumps and the world 's most expensive oil rig accident was set in motion.
在当天夜里10点,技术人员按下按钮让液态气体泵开始工作,同时为史上最昂贵的石油钻井事故埋下了伏笔。不到两个小时,300英尺高的平台就被大火吞没。
The Burj's "form has set in motion a number of other projects that look very similar, " Niemuth says. "When you're in the Middle East you'll see other buildings that were inspired by it."
如果你身处中东,你会发现迪拜塔的形状与其他的一些建筑非常相似,就是这些建筑物激发了迪拜塔的设计灵感。
Get started or set in motion used figurative ly as of a project.
开始着手或者开始运动,象征性地使用,关于一个计划。
But it was the indefinable sense of promise that is taking this to a new level, with the biggest advantage set in motion last week not fully revealing itself until next month.
但正因为有所不确定的期望感而将这领向一个新的层次,由于上周动作设下的最大优势在下月之前都还不算完全明朗化。
You also have unconscious intents which may never be known, but they are set in motion nonetheless.
你也可能有自己从不知道的无意识意愿,虽然如此,它们还是在意向中建立了。
You also have unconscious intents which may never be known, but they are set in motion nonetheless.
你也可能有自己从不知道的无意识意愿,虽然如此,它们还是在意向中建立了。
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