They set off, two men out in front as scouts, two behind in case of any attack from the rear.

他们出发了，两人在前作为侦察员，两人殿后以防后方攻击。

Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering. It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats.

施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开，调查了日本的工厂来弄清楚他们怎么生产出了如此了不起的产品。

From there I set off, heading south, along the border stones and white stakes that marked out the western side of the border with East Germany. I had my camera with me.

我带着相机从那里出发，沿着边界石头和标示东西德边界的白色桩子向南行进。

They set off again - and promptly ran out of fuel.

他们又出发了，可是突然汽油用完了。

I set it aside, went out for the night, came back the next morning, and cut off a thin slice.

我把它放在一边，然后在那个晚上出去了，第二天早餐回来后，切开一片蛋糕。

Toward evening I would return to a more formal section of the park, set out as a garden, just off the main road.

傍晚时分，我回到公园，这次到了一个更正式一些的部分。这部分就在主路旁边，被设计成一个花园。

Some fear that speaking out about the need for expenses-related sackings could set off a wave of retribution that could eventually engulf them too.

一些人害怕说出需要相关开支证据，可能会引起应得的惩罚风波，最后也把他们全都吞噬完。

They set out to discover whether female competition accounted for these impressive armaments, and whether there was a trade-off between horns and fecundity.

他们开始探索雌性动物竞争时是否产生了这些惊人的武器、角与繁殖力两者之间是否需要相关？

In the end, I send them out with a long shopping list, set the timer on my phone to go off in ten minutes and drag Colin upstairs.

最后我开了个长长的购物单才把她们打发出门。然后用手机定了个十分钟的闹钟，拉起科林就上楼。

With our house rented and two one-way tickets to Japan in hand, we set off for what turned out to be a two-year adventure, as our money went much further than we had expected.

把房子租了出去，拿着两张到日本的单程机票，我们开始了最终结果是两年的历程，因为我们的钱比原来预想的要耐用得多。

Real learning apps have a set of criteria that qualifies them as educational, so rather than writing them all off as a waste of time, parents can figure out what their kids are exposed to.

真正的学习应用程序拥有一套评判标准来确定它们是为了教育的目的。 所以父母们与其写说所有的这些应用程序、游戏都是浪费时间，不如真正有心想想他们的孩子想要探索什么。

The experiment set off a small industry of follow-up studies carried out in labs all around the world.

这个实验开创了一个全世界实验室对此进行后续研究的小型产业。

After that, he helps out at the barbecue in the park, and then he prepares to set off the town's fireworks.

接下来，唐会去公园里的烧烤餐会上帮忙，然后他要为镇上的烟火表演做准备。

You can set the timer to turn the audio off after whatever amount of time suits you, and you can make it fade out quietly.

你可以设置定时器来根据自己需要随时关掉声音，你还可以让它安静地渐渐隐去。

Nearly a decade ago, he sold his flat, sent his family to live with relatives in the countryside, and set out to pay off his debts.

大约十年前，他卖掉房产，把家人送到乡村的亲戚家中，然后独自开始偿还债务。

Clever people, abetted by the rating agencies, set out to pass off poor credit as AAA, because they stood to make a lot of money.

受到评级机构煽动的聪明人，宣布要终止AAA差级信用，因为他们想要赚更多的钱。

If Love is cooking you dinner tonight and you need out the door at 6pm, set an alert to go off at 5pm, 5:30, 5:45 and 5:55 (more, if necessary) saying "Hey!"

如果爱人今晚在家等你，你需要6点出门，那么把闹铃调到5点，5：30,5：45,5：55(或更晚，如果有必要)，说一声：“嘿！”

No one was happy about bailing out big financial institutions, after all, but the news that a group of A.I.G. employees were going to get bonuses really set people off.

人人都对拯救大型金融机构之举不满，但一帮AIG员工即将拿到高额奖金的新闻却真正招惹了众怒。

New regulations are set to roll out in the coming months that threaten to kill off a large chunk of their profits -- most notably, the controversial Volcker Rule.

未来几个月将出台的新法规很可能会砍掉它们大块的利润——特别是争议不断的沃尔克法则(Volcker Rule)。

The best option turned out to be re-running the benchmark on my machine with one of the cores in the Core 2 Duo turned off, set in the BIOS.

最好的选择是，在BIOS中关闭Core 2 Duo中的一个核，然后重新运行基准测试。

Get up, I saw the sun would come out early, I immediately ran to toilet, eating a few dumplings, the family set off to grandma.

一起床，就看见太阳公公早就出来了，我马上跑去漱洗，又吃了几个饺子，一家人就出发去外婆家。

Shake off the extra batter and deep-dry the chicken for 2 minutes. Scoop out and set aside.

炸锅中烧油至175C/350F，将裹好面糊的鸡块抖去多余的面糊，然后放入锅中炸2分钟捞出滤油。

The fire broke out after the 44-storey building was showered with the sparks from fireworks set off during China's biggest holiday.

大火窜起是由于在这个中国最大的节日期间燃放的烟花火星溅洒在这座44层的建筑上导致的。

She hit it off with Edward and soon the two of them set out on a cross-country adventure.

她和爱德华一见如故，不久他们俩出发开始了一场越野探险。

Beijing has used license plate restrictions to limit the number of cars and set out plans to keep the oldest and most polluting vehicles off roads when air is especially bad.

北京通过车牌限制来限定汽车数量，并在空气特别糟糕的时候制定计划限制最古老和污染最严重的车辆上路。

Her body has set off car alarms, interrupted the TV signal and blown out light bulbs.

她的磁性身体曾触发过汽车报警器、扰乱过电视信号、烧断过电灯泡的灯丝。