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。

The government set out to destroy the organization root and branch.

政府着手完全彻底地摧毁这个组织。

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。

That question is what he and Ph.D. student Anastasia Zakolyukina set out to answer.

那就是他和博士生安娜斯塔西娅·察柯柳金娜打算回答的问题。

There a new dynasty, uniting the country's west and east, set out to create a great empire.

一个新的王朝，将这个国家的东西方结合起来，打算建立一个伟大的帝国。

The simplest definition of success is to set out to do something and to succeed in doing it.

成功最简单的定义就是着手去做一件事，并成功地完成它。

Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.

佐佐木由香和布朗大学的同事着手研究这种效应的起源。

Success is the result of devoting your time and energy to what you've set out to do, which doesn't happen by accident.

成功是投入时间和精力到你着手做的事情上的结果，它不会是偶然发生的。

She has set out to seduce Stephen.

她已开始勾引斯蒂芬。

She set out to break the world record.

她一心努力要打破世界纪录。

I set out to buy food.

我动身去买吃的。

They succeeded in what they set out to do.

他们实现了既定的目标。

These movies deliberately set out to shock.

这些电影存心让人恶心。

He set out to chisel a dog out of sandstone.

他开始用凿子将砂岩雕刻成一只狗。

Jones had set out to intimidate and dominate Paul.

琼斯曾试图威胁并控制保罗。

He has achieved what he set out to do three years ago.

他已经完成了3年前开始努力做的事情。

"I have," he remarked with pardonable pride, "done what I set out to do."

“我已经，”他以可原谅的骄傲语气说，“完成了我要做的。”

Next time, you set out to achieve great works, listen carefully.

下一次，当你准备完成伟大的作品时，仔细地聆听。

They set out to work whenever the FUF informs them of a tree in need.

每当“城市森林之友”（FUF）通知他们有树木需要帮助时，他们就开始工作。

The next morning he hired a boat and set out to find the well-known painter.

第二天早上，他租了一条船，出发去找这位著名的画家。

We gathered at the foot of the hill and set out to the peak.

我们在山脚下回合，朝着峰顶出发。

Most archaeological sites, however, are discovered by archaeologists who have set out to look for them.

然而，大多数考古遗址都是由那些寻找它们的考古学家发现的。

Cedar Point set out to market itself as "The Roller Coaster Capital of the World" with several record breakers over the next decade.

在下一个十年里，杉点乐园以其打破的几项纪录的成绩，将它自己打造成为“世界云霄飞车之都”。

You spend a day putting out files, but by the end of the day, you haven't accomplished any of the really important things you set out to do.

你花了一天的时间整理文件，但是到一天结束，你还没有完成任何你计划要做的真正重要的事情。

Exposing historians tacit and intentional sexism, herstorians set out to correct the record—to show that women had held up half the historical sky.

“她史”揭露了历史学家心照不派和有意的性别歧视，开始纠正记录，表明妇女曾撑起了历史的半边天。

In 2006, Angelo Bisazza at the University of Padua set out to observe the differences in feeding behaviour between strongly-lateralised and weakly-lateralised fish.

2006年，帕多瓦大学的安杰洛·比萨扎开始观察强侧化和弱侧化鱼类的进食行为差异。

He set out to try something new, forming EPC Cigar Co. with his children, Lissette and Ernesto III that same year.

他开始尝试新东西，同年和他的孩子们（利塞特和埃内斯托三世）开创了 EPC 雪茄公司。