| 词汇 | set your heart on something |
| 释义 | set your heart on somethingset your heart on something 1 to want something very much 非常想得到某物，渴望得到某物 His father bought him the bike he had set his heart on. 父亲给他买了辆他一心想要的自行车。 She had set her heart on becoming a hairdresser. 她一心想成为美发师。 Examples from the Corpus set your heart on something• He's always set his heart on going to Simon's school.• He was not a man to give way easily and he had clearly set his heart on making her recognise her father.• By January 1768 they were back in Vienna, where Leopold had set his heart on securing an opera commission for Wolfgang.• So now, after all, there was something she had set her heart on.• I have held no office because Thou did not will it, and I never set my heart on office.• He's set his heart on a new bike for Christmas. → set your heart on something at heart1(13) 2 WANTDETERMINEDto want very much to have or achieve something, or to be determined to do something 一心想/决心要得到[做]某事物 Ellen has completely set her heart on that house. 埃伦一心要得到那幢房子。 He set his sights on crossing the Pacific by balloon. 他决心要乘热气球横渡太平洋。 Examples from the Corpus set your heart/mind/sights on (doing) something• But where there are sellers there are buyers, and it was this latter rare species we had set our sights on.• Wagner set his sights on a degree in electrical engineering, and he followed his star with a fervid intensity.• He knew he was bound to pull any girl he set his mind on - he always had.• Her youth and beauty elicited a predictable reaction from my father, who set his sights on her at once.• Sofa Head's greatest asset is the realisation that you don't have to set your sights on one target.• Yes, she thought, if Tamar had set her mind on something she would never rest until it was accomplished.• Gazing intently into her computer screen, Christine Montgomery has set her sights on the next generation of electronic language translators.• Heath had set her sights on the U. S. Senate seat from Colorado. → set your heart/mind/sights on (doing) something at set1(2) |
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