set-back

基本解释

These factors make the economy prone to bubbles and raise the risk of a near-term set-back – either as the bubble bursts or, more likely, as policymakers act.
这些因素会使经济容易出现泡沫，并加大了近期遭受挫折的风险——无论是当泡沫破裂、还是政策制定者采取措施（后者可能行更大）的时候。
Although senior corporate figures have stated that WA's mining boom was enduring a "temporary set-back", some academics believe that, for now, the good times are over.
虽然一些公司的高级官员曾表示，西澳大利亚州的矿业繁荣将会遇到“暂时的挫折”，但是一些专业人士认为，现在，好时候已经过去。
It looked as though his time in the treatment room was over until this latest set-back, which followed praise from England boss Fabio Capello for his performance against Arsenal.
在这一次受伤之前，他的“治疗室生涯”看上去就要结束了。在对阵阿森纳的比赛结束之后，他的表现也得到了英格兰国家队主帅卡佩罗的称赞。

Clinton's India visit, which began late Friday in Mumbai, has been filled with reminders of the Pakistani-based terrorist attacks on that city last November that killed 166 people and set back relations between the two South Asian powers.
- Come back. The last set of studies-- ? Have you talked about Schacter, Singer's "Emotions"?
回来，最后一项研究-,你们是否谈论过沙各特和辛格的“情绪现象“吗？
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We set up--this is not a new idea, this goes back to China thousands of years ago, but it started to be widely done-- So you had a Civil Service exam that established your competence.
我们建立了，这不是什么新主意，可以追溯到几千年前的中国，但这次开始广泛地实施开来-,你得参加公务员考试来考核你的能力。
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The older you are, the harder it is to recover from a set-back.
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If something sets you back or sets back a project or plan, it causes a delay.
If something sets you back a certain amount of money, it costs you that much money.
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