set down

英 [set daʊn]

美 [set daʊn]

制定，规定（规则等）; 把（思想、经历等）写下来; 记下

柯林斯词典

PHRASAL VERB 制定，规定(规则等)
If a committee or organizationsets downrules for doing something, it decides what they should be and officially records them.
1. The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
  会议制定了用以确定由哪个国家负责受理避难请求的规约。
PHRASAL VERB 把(思想、经历等)写下来;记下
If youset downyour thoughts or experiences, you write them all down.
1. Old Walter is setting down his memories of village life.
  老沃尔特正在写他乡村生活的回忆录。

verb

put down in writing
Synonym:write downget downput down
leave or unload
1. unload the cargo
2. drop off the passengers at the hotel
Synonym:dropdrop offput downunloaddischarge
cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
1. set down your bags here
Synonym:put downplace down
put or settle into a position
1. The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley
go ashore
1. The passengers disembarked at Southampton
Synonym:disembarkdebark
reach or come to rest
1. The bird landed on the highest branch
2. The plane landed in Istanbul
Synonym:land

The police asked him to set down what he had seen in a report.
警察让他在报告中写下他所看见的事情。
I'll set down one or two points while they are fresh in my mind.
趁我记忆犹新我得写下一两个要点。
The biggest city was set down clearly on the map.
地图上清楚地标出了这座最大的城市。
There was a pause while the barmaid set down two plates in front of us.
酒吧女招待在我们面前摆放两个盘子时停顿了一下。
He was the one who first set down the stories of the Celtic storytellers.
他是首位将凯尔特说书人讲的故事记载下来的人。
The man poured a full glass of whisky, and set down the bottle noiselessly.
那人斟了满满的一杯威士忌，轻轻地放下瓶子。
I don't want to set down a series of facts in a diary.
我不想在日记里记下一连串的发生的事情。
He set down the bag and rested for a while.
他放下袋子，休息了一会儿。
He set down the receiver and came toward us, glistening slightly, to take our stiff straw hats.
他放下了话筒，朝我们走过来，头上冒着汗珠，接过我们的硬壳草帽。
To put or set down emphatically or with force. Creativity is being strangled by financial pressures.
用力放下重重地或用力地放置或放下创造力被经济上的重重压力抑制住了。