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Definition of setting in English: settingnoun ˈsɛtɪŋˈsɛdɪŋ 1The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. 环境 a romantic house in a wonderful setting beside the River Wye 怀河边优美环境中的一幢富有浪漫色彩的房屋。 Example sentencesExamples - The scheme comprises 230 homes laid out in a series of courtyard settings and surrounded by green areas.
- The ground is in a charming setting, surrounded by hills, although this does result in shadows over the ground in the late afternoon or evening.
- Downpatrick Library is an appropriate setting for the event.
- It shows how the same events and settings might have looked quite different when seen through different eyes.
- Once the location for two cottages which had large gardens, the site will be the setting for several houses with a green area at the side.
- A scenic bus ride will take attendees to this Texas hot spot, an ideal setting for a festive event.
- The outdoor swimming pool is in a truly beautiful setting with its bush surroundings.
- It sits on a site of four acres in a wonderful setting.
- This is a unique and charming home in a wonderful setting.
- ‘At Balmoral we have a wonderful setting for an exclusive dinner and dance,’ the website states.
- Party at the Palace, the rock and pop concert, will take place two days later on Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday 3 June in the same setting as the classical event.
- Set in a creative space, the gallery provides a unique setting for social events, in addition to its artist showings.
- With a wonderful setting situated at the front of the glass dome, it affords unbroken views of the River Irvine, the church spires of the town and the hills beyond.
- The whole setting is wonderful, with the track swooping and plunging its way through magnificent pine forests.
- Ten of the top young musicians from Sligo were given their first chance to perform in a live setting at a gala event at the weekend.
- The stunning Image Garden, at Reagill, was the setting for a fund-raising event in aid of Kiev's street children.
- The grounds of Markree Castle is the setting for the event, which will celebrate all kinds of country sports and pursuits.
- All of the museums offer stylish settings for events and can cater for up to 1500 guests.
- The strange setting made the entire event a sensory experience.
- The setting is wonderful, though the accommodation very simple.
Synonyms surroundings, position, situation, environment, background, backdrop, milieu, environs habitat spot, place, location, locale, site, scene context, frame area, neighbourhood, region, district French mise en scène technical locus - 1.1 The place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening.
（戏剧、小说或电影的）场景，背景 short stories with a contemporary setting 现代背景的短篇小说。 Example sentencesExamples - New York has probably been the setting for more novels and memoirs than any city in the world.
- This is the implied setting of the film Land of the Morning Calm.
- The setting of the film is a remote Cree community in Northern Alberta.
- This is the setting for the new film Starsky and Hutch, which, contrary to popular belief, is not a remake.
- She demands to be shown settings of the novels she reads, such as Paris, London, and Venice.
- The seaside region of Thanjavur is the setting of the novel.
- As Lutie approaches the building that will become the setting of the novel, she spies a sign advertising an available apartment.
- The historical setting of the novel is so lovingly detailed that the atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties really comes to life.
- Africa is also the setting for a new novel by thriller writer John le Carré.
- The central setting for the three novels is Blue Brook Plantation, and each novel's central characters are black.
- The clinic that provided the setting for the novel is perched on top of a hill.
- Oran, the setting of the novel, is a French port on the Algerian coast, a small city that is about as ordinary as a city can be.
- Two other Innes novels with partial Oxford settings are Stop Press and Operation Pax.
- James has transformed the detective genre, among other ways, by giving her novels carefully rendered settings.
- Micheaux uses the novel's two primary settings, South Dakota and Chicago, to symbolize these two states of being.
- The Scottish setting of his best novels helped to found the ‘Kailyard school’ of fiction.
- His books are based in contemporary settings but he's able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us.
- Sewers may not seem the ideal setting for a racy novel.
- The novel fully addresses its setting, this city we live in that's obsessed with class and racial politics.
- London's organised-crime underworld, in all its diversity and brutality, is the setting for this edgy contemporary thriller.
- 1.2North American The scenery and stage furniture used in a play or film.
〈北美〉（戏剧或电影的）布景；舞台布景 Example sentencesExamples - To successfully manage a cast of almost 50 across a number of epic settings on a relatively small stage is no mean feat.
- It has lavish spectacular moments, lots of local colour, gorgeous settings, beautiful actresses, and some terrible songs.
- The cast is uniformly excellent, especially Peter Ustinov as Poirot, and the setting is delightful.
- The settings and scenery were not as one would expect in a traditional production.
- Compounding this disjointed approach was a confusing mélange of stage settings.
Synonyms stage furniture, stage set, stage setting, scenery, backdrop, wings, flats
2A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewellery. （镶嵌宝石的）镶托，镶口 a garnet in a heavy gold setting Example sentencesExamples - I'd always admired the way jewelers could place stones and create settings.
- We're so used to seeing turquoise in a setting for a ring or as a pendant that we don't often consider it for the interior design of our homes.
- These jewelry settings are common when it comes to diamonds or other gemstones.
- Other slaves cut and shaped the amethysts, topazes, emeralds, and diamonds that often filled the gold and silver settings.
- Whereas gold is a traditional setting, platinum has taken off as the newest trend in wedding jewelry.
- Gemstone settings are basically any setting with a combination of diamonds and other precious stones.
- Yellow gold is the setting that most people choose for their wedding ring.
- These were either fixed into metal settings or drilled along the prism axis and strung as beads.
Synonyms mounting, mount, fixture, surround 3A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words. （为特定词谱写的）配曲 a setting of Yevtushenko's bleak poem 叶夫图申科凄凉诗歌的配曲。 Example sentencesExamples - The new piece is a musical setting - without words - of McKellar's poem, Sangsters, in three verses.
- Grainger wrote the settings from Songs of the North pretty early.
- In the Heine settings, Schubert's musical imagery becomes wilder, even less predictable.
- The evening will feature choral settings of Palestinian poems, traditional Palestinian dance and Israeli music fused with jazz.
- It has attracted numerous polyphonic settings, by such composers as Victoria, Palestrina, and Mozart.
4 short for place setting Example sentencesExamples - There is a fresh competitive edge in the camp; even the dinner-table settings are regularly mixed up so that the old and the new sit together.
5A speed, height, or temperature at which a machine or device can be adjusted to operate. （对机器设备运转速度、高度或温度的）设定，调节 if you find the room getting too hot, check the thermostat setting 如果你觉得房间变得太热，查一查恒温器的设定温度。 Example sentencesExamples - Use actual fabric swatches and set the machine with the recommended settings, thread and needles.
- The faulty temperature settings over the winter seem to be a direct result of that.
- However, this week, in a hurry I didn't change the settings on the washing machine and ironing became a necessity.
- He stated that the cart had speed control settings that permitted Nelson to operate the cart at a pace too fast for the path terrain.
- Manager John Linehan has now altered the settings of the device, so it will freeze wheels passing at a height of 3ft above ground.
- This can be set at just above freezing or slightly higher if you wish, and will only be activated when the temperature drops below its setting.
- There are four speed settings: full, cruising, slow and stop.
- Then she readjusted the temperature settings a bit, so that she wouldn't hurt herself again.
- Luxury climate control, which gives separate temperature settings for the front seat occupants, is a £410 upgrade.
- Each of the AquaGate's Fan Speed settings also shows a direct result on its cooling ability.
- I began adjusting the settings again and then took a step away.
- The pot stirrer can be adjusted to fit any shape or size of pan, has a number of different speed settings and also has a programmable timer.
- She was busily adjusting the settings of the missiles so they were lucky that she didn't even bother to listen to them as they spoke.
- The system then chooses the optimum settings for ride height, engine torque, gear selection and so on.
- Microprocessors control other variables and settings, such as temperature.
- In addition, there are other bits of information provided here, including the speed settings of the cruise control.
- I then set that oven at the required time and temperature settings to bake my newest muffins as I'd now chosen to bake them here.
- Plus, with the varying speeds and incline settings, anyone can use it, and it never becomes obsolete.
- His doctors, who believe they can lower that rate by tinkering with the device's settings, are less guarded.
- The calculations are double-checked, and all machine settings are verified.
Definition of setting in US English: settingnounˈsɛdɪŋˈsediNG 1The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. 环境 cozy waterfront cottage in a peaceful country setting Example sentencesExamples - With a wonderful setting situated at the front of the glass dome, it affords unbroken views of the River Irvine, the church spires of the town and the hills beyond.
- It sits on a site of four acres in a wonderful setting.
- ‘At Balmoral we have a wonderful setting for an exclusive dinner and dance,’ the website states.
- The stunning Image Garden, at Reagill, was the setting for a fund-raising event in aid of Kiev's street children.
- This is a unique and charming home in a wonderful setting.
- The whole setting is wonderful, with the track swooping and plunging its way through magnificent pine forests.
- The grounds of Markree Castle is the setting for the event, which will celebrate all kinds of country sports and pursuits.
- Set in a creative space, the gallery provides a unique setting for social events, in addition to its artist showings.
- Once the location for two cottages which had large gardens, the site will be the setting for several houses with a green area at the side.
- A scenic bus ride will take attendees to this Texas hot spot, an ideal setting for a festive event.
- All of the museums offer stylish settings for events and can cater for up to 1500 guests.
- Downpatrick Library is an appropriate setting for the event.
- Party at the Palace, the rock and pop concert, will take place two days later on Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday 3 June in the same setting as the classical event.
- Ten of the top young musicians from Sligo were given their first chance to perform in a live setting at a gala event at the weekend.
- The scheme comprises 230 homes laid out in a series of courtyard settings and surrounded by green areas.
- The strange setting made the entire event a sensory experience.
- The ground is in a charming setting, surrounded by hills, although this does result in shadows over the ground in the late afternoon or evening.
- It shows how the same events and settings might have looked quite different when seen through different eyes.
- The outdoor swimming pool is in a truly beautiful setting with its bush surroundings.
- The setting is wonderful, though the accommodation very simple.
Synonyms surroundings, position, situation, environment, background, backdrop, milieu, environs - 1.1 The place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening.
（戏剧、小说或电影的）场景，背景 short stories with a contemporary setting 现代背景的短篇小说。 Example sentencesExamples - The setting of the film is a remote Cree community in Northern Alberta.
- The central setting for the three novels is Blue Brook Plantation, and each novel's central characters are black.
- The seaside region of Thanjavur is the setting of the novel.
- This is the setting for the new film Starsky and Hutch, which, contrary to popular belief, is not a remake.
- The novel fully addresses its setting, this city we live in that's obsessed with class and racial politics.
- James has transformed the detective genre, among other ways, by giving her novels carefully rendered settings.
- As Lutie approaches the building that will become the setting of the novel, she spies a sign advertising an available apartment.
- Oran, the setting of the novel, is a French port on the Algerian coast, a small city that is about as ordinary as a city can be.
- She demands to be shown settings of the novels she reads, such as Paris, London, and Venice.
- His books are based in contemporary settings but he's able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us.
- The Scottish setting of his best novels helped to found the ‘Kailyard school’ of fiction.
- The historical setting of the novel is so lovingly detailed that the atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties really comes to life.
- This is the implied setting of the film Land of the Morning Calm.
- New York has probably been the setting for more novels and memoirs than any city in the world.
- Africa is also the setting for a new novel by thriller writer John le Carré.
- London's organised-crime underworld, in all its diversity and brutality, is the setting for this edgy contemporary thriller.
- The clinic that provided the setting for the novel is perched on top of a hill.
- Two other Innes novels with partial Oxford settings are Stop Press and Operation Pax.
- Micheaux uses the novel's two primary settings, South Dakota and Chicago, to symbolize these two states of being.
- Sewers may not seem the ideal setting for a racy novel.
2A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry. （镶嵌宝石的）镶托，镶口 Example sentencesExamples - These were either fixed into metal settings or drilled along the prism axis and strung as beads.
- We're so used to seeing turquoise in a setting for a ring or as a pendant that we don't often consider it for the interior design of our homes.
- Other slaves cut and shaped the amethysts, topazes, emeralds, and diamonds that often filled the gold and silver settings.
- Yellow gold is the setting that most people choose for their wedding ring.
- Gemstone settings are basically any setting with a combination of diamonds and other precious stones.
- I'd always admired the way jewelers could place stones and create settings.
- Whereas gold is a traditional setting, platinum has taken off as the newest trend in wedding jewelry.
- These jewelry settings are common when it comes to diamonds or other gemstones.
Synonyms mounting, mount, fixture, surround 3A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words. （为特定词谱写的）配曲 a setting of Yevtushenko's bleak poem 叶夫图申科凄凉诗歌的配曲。 Example sentencesExamples - The evening will feature choral settings of Palestinian poems, traditional Palestinian dance and Israeli music fused with jazz.
- Grainger wrote the settings from Songs of the North pretty early.
- It has attracted numerous polyphonic settings, by such composers as Victoria, Palestrina, and Mozart.
- In the Heine settings, Schubert's musical imagery becomes wilder, even less predictable.
- The new piece is a musical setting - without words - of McKellar's poem, Sangsters, in three verses.
4 short for place setting Example sentencesExamples - There is a fresh competitive edge in the camp; even the dinner-table settings are regularly mixed up so that the old and the new sit together.
5A speed, height, or temperature at which a machine or device can be adjusted to operate. （对机器设备运转速度、高度或温度的）设定，调节 if you find the room getting too hot, check the thermostat setting 如果你觉得房间变得太热，查一查恒温器的设定温度。 Example sentencesExamples - In addition, there are other bits of information provided here, including the speed settings of the cruise control.
- The calculations are double-checked, and all machine settings are verified.
- Manager John Linehan has now altered the settings of the device, so it will freeze wheels passing at a height of 3ft above ground.
- The faulty temperature settings over the winter seem to be a direct result of that.
- Luxury climate control, which gives separate temperature settings for the front seat occupants, is a £410 upgrade.
- I began adjusting the settings again and then took a step away.
- There are four speed settings: full, cruising, slow and stop.
- He stated that the cart had speed control settings that permitted Nelson to operate the cart at a pace too fast for the path terrain.
- His doctors, who believe they can lower that rate by tinkering with the device's settings, are less guarded.
- Plus, with the varying speeds and incline settings, anyone can use it, and it never becomes obsolete.
- This can be set at just above freezing or slightly higher if you wish, and will only be activated when the temperature drops below its setting.
- The system then chooses the optimum settings for ride height, engine torque, gear selection and so on.
- Use actual fabric swatches and set the machine with the recommended settings, thread and needles.
- Each of the AquaGate's Fan Speed settings also shows a direct result on its cooling ability.
- However, this week, in a hurry I didn't change the settings on the washing machine and ironing became a necessity.
- Microprocessors control other variables and settings, such as temperature.
- I then set that oven at the required time and temperature settings to bake my newest muffins as I'd now chosen to bake them here.
- The pot stirrer can be adjusted to fit any shape or size of pan, has a number of different speed settings and also has a programmable timer.
- She was busily adjusting the settings of the missiles so they were lucky that she didn't even bother to listen to them as they spoke.
- Then she readjusted the temperature settings a bit, so that she wouldn't hurt herself again.
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