set in motion meaning in English
把...发动起来
Examples
- Money to the extent of hundreds of thousands was set in motion .
流通的金钱达几十万金元之多。 - Barbicane, as if he had been set in motion by a spring, raised himself up .
巴比康象受到弹簧推动似的，霍地站了起来。 - All the weapons in the museum discharged at once could not have more violently set in motion the sound waves .
即使这个炮兵博物馆里所有的武器一起开火，也不会更厉害地扰乱声波。 - Such preference shown by a single gentleman to a single lady would certainly, in ordinary cases, have set in motion the tongues of gossips .
一个单身男子对一个单身小姐显得这样亲热，在一般情况下，一定会引起闲言闲语。