n.计划;安排;装置;设备
第三人称复数:set-ups
词典解释
1. 体制;组织方式;建制
A particular set-up is a particular system or way of organizing something.
set-up的意思
e.g. It appears to be an idyllic domestic set-up...
这似乎是一种田园诗般的家庭组成格局。
e.g. I gradually got rather disillusioned with the whole setup of the university.
渐渐地,我对大学的整个体制感到相当失望。
2. 陷害;栽赃
If you describe a situation as a set-up, you mean that people have planned it in order to deceive you or to make it look as if you have done something wrong.
set-up什么意思
e.g. He was asked to pick somebody up and bring them to a party, not realizing it was a setup.
有人让他开车去接几个人来参加聚会,他并没有意识到这是个陷阱。
3. (软件或硬件的)安装,设置
The set-up of computer hardware or software is the process of installing it and making it ready to use.
e.g. The worst part of the set-up is the poor instruction manual...
安装时最糟糕就是操作指南讲述不够清楚。
e.g. ... the setup program.
安装程序
经典引文
At the time of the battle of Marathon the Athenians had..a rather inefficient command set-up.
出自:TimesThe whole economic set-up has to be changed.
出自:P. ArrowsmithI'd..get to know the general set-up, what was involved and all that.
出自:B. PymEvery new camera position or change in photographic composition is called a 'set-up'.
出自:T. BarrThe best computer setup in the world.
出自:C. McCulloughThe first time for years that we have had top Test players in our set-up.
出自:Cricketer International