set out to do

基本解釋

I felt I could do anything I set out to do.
我感覺，我可以做任何我決心要做的事情。
Much of the time when we set out to do something, we go in with a mindset of trying.
很多時候，當我們開始著手做某事請，都是抱著試試看的心態(tài)。
If something comes up – and it inevitably does – then you still have enough (time) capacity to handle it and complete what you set out to do.
如果有意外的事發(fā)生——這在所難免——你仍有足夠的精力（時間）來處理它并且不會耽擱你計劃的工作。

And that is exactly what I set out to do." The last event of the Championships will be the final of the men's four-by-400-meter relay.
And that's what he set out to do.
這就是他準備做的。
麻省理工公開課 - 固態(tài)化學導論課程節(jié)選
It's a good sort of question that gets raised in such a problematic allusion: how do you set out to write an original poem within such a conventional genre like the epic?
對于這樣一項有問題的引用,提出這些問題是很好的：,你怎么能開始寫一篇標榜原創(chuàng)的詩作,卻使用史詩這一傳統(tǒng)的文體呢？
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

In the end, like Mattie, we will accomplish exactly what we set out to do.
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