大学英语四级常用短语 set back
释义:
set back 推迟;使…受挫折;把…往回拨
例句:
"My car was actually lifted off the road and then set back down, " Black said.
In a quiet subdivision, I stopped at a gray clapboard house set back from the road.
The big set back I see is the lack of confidence that girls have.
That could set back hospitals, and cost them millions of dollars in federal money.
It was a complex of ten or so red brick buildings, set back from the street.
We set back up in our prime spot, still glowing from our success the day before.
But explosive testing damaged our health, disrupted our environment and set back our non-proliferation goals.
Russia's default on its government obligations has set back Western investment in Russia by years, probably decades.
There is disagreement over how much these proposals would set back the public purse (see article).
Another set back for the Commission took place when it dropped its insider trading case against Rajat Gupta.
Signs of widespread corruption are likely to set back the next stage in the banks' ambitious reform plans.
In the absence, he said, of any attempt to open a dialogue, there was nothing to set back.
He fears that failure to reach agreement in March would further set back the already much-delayed business of enlargement.
The Los Angeles writers' strike has shuttered late-night talk shows and will almost certainly set back a few drama series.