We set out to determine exactly what happened that night.

我们着手查明那天晚上发生的事情。

《牛津词典》

I don't think I set out to come up with a different sound for each CD. At the same time, I do have a sense of what is right for the moment.

我想我一开始就没打算为每张CD设计不同的声音。然而，我确实能感觉到目前什么是对的。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

She set out to break the world record.

她一心努力要打破世界纪录。

《牛津词典》

In any case, nineteen eighty-three was the year Ahmet Ertegun set out to establish an organization that became the foundation.

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It's a good sort of question that gets raised in such a problematic allusion: how do you set out to write an original poem within such a conventional genre like the epic?

对于这样一项有问题的引用,提出这些问题是很好的：,你怎么能开始写一篇标榜原创的诗作,却使用史诗这一传统的文体呢？

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It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Working with the Tax Justice Network I set out to provide a definitive answer.

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He is leaving because he has achieved everything he set out to do at Radio 4.

BBC: Boyle steps down at Radio 4

A., set out to use a far-out technique called antisense to develop antiviral drugs.

FORBES: The Golden Age of Antiviral Drugs