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15012,shirk responsibility,,逃避责任,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
15013,shore up,,支持,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
15014,short notice,,临时通知,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
15015,short of,,缺乏,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
15016,shrug off,,不懈理睬,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
15017,sign into,,签署(法案),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
15018,silver lining,,困境中的一线希望,积极的一面”

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
set up (verb)
transitive verb
1.
a) to raise to and place in a high position
b) to place in view - post
c) to put forward (as a plan) for acceptance
2.
a) to place upright - erect set up a statue
b) to assemble the parts of and erect in position
c) to put (a machine) in readiness or adjustment for an operation
3.
a) - cause create set up a clamor
b) - bring about
4.
to place in power or in office - set up the general as dictator
5.
a) to raise from depression - elate gratify
b) to make proud or vain
6.
a) to put forward or extol as a model
b) to claim oneself to be - sets himself up as an authority
7.
- found inaugurate
8.
a) to provide with means of making a living - set him up in business
b) to bring or restore to normal health
c) to cause (one) to take on a soldierly or athletic appearance especially through drill
9.
to erect (a perpendicular or a figure) on a base in a drawing
10.
a) to make taut (a stay or hawser)
b) to tighten firmly
11.
to make carefully worked out plans for - set up a bank robbery
12.
a) to pay for (drinks)
b) to treat (someone) to something
13.
a) to put in a compromising or dangerous position usually by trickery or deceit
b) - frame
14.
intransitive verb
to execute one or more plays in preparation for scoring
1.
to come into active operation or use
2.
to begin business
3.
to make pretensions - has never set up to be a wise man Thomas Rogers
4.
to become firm or consolidated
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
set up (verb)
1.
to arrange something in a certain spot or position
SYNONYMS:
depose, deposit, dispose, emplace, fix, lay, position, put, set, set up, situate, stick
RELATED WORDS:
move, rearrange, reorder, shift; orient; establish, locate, plant, settle; clap, flop, plank, plop, plump, plunk ( plonk), plunk down, slap; ensconce, niche; assemble, collect; carry; berth, park; affix, anchor, lock, lodge, wedge; array, lay out, line up, queue, rank; set down
NEAR ANTONYMS:
relocate, remove, take; banish; dislodge, displace, replace, supersede, supplant
set up (verb)
2.
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
SYNONYMS:
begin, constitute, establish, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up, start
RELATED WORDS:
author, father, originate; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up); construct, put up; develop, enlarge, expand; endow, finance, fund, subsidize; arrange, organize, systematize, systemize; refound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch
NEAR ANTONYMS:
abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify; end, finish, halt, stop, terminate; round (off out), wind up, wrap up
close (down), phase out, shut (up)
set up (verb)
3.
to fix in an upright position
SYNONYMS:
pitch, put up, raise, rear, set up, upend, upraise
RELATED WORDS:
brace, buttress, prop (up), shore (up), support; boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, jack (up), lift, perk (up), pick up, up, uphold, uplift
NEAR ANTONYMS:
demolish, flatten, knock down, level, raze, tear down
set up (verb)
4.
to form by putting together parts or materials
SYNONYMS:
assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
RELATED WORDS:
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite
NEAR ANTONYMS:
demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck; blow up, explode; detach, disengage; disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate
demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down
set up (verb)
5.
to restore to a healthy condition
SYNONYMS:
cure, fix, mend, rehab, rehabilitate, set up
RELATED WORDS:
attend (to), care (for), doctor, medicate, minister (to), nurse, physic, treat; fortify, rejuvenate, renew, resuscitate, revitalize, revive; alleviate, relieve, remedy, repair
NEAR ANTONYMS:
cripple, damage, disable, harm, hurt, impair, injure, lacerate, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, wound; afflict, ail, debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, lay up, sap, sicken, waste, weaken
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