set/put something in motion

START something/MAKE something STARTto start a process or series of events that will continue for some time 使某事开始

The Church voted to set in motion the process allowing women to be priests.

教会投票决定启动允许女性当牧师的程序。

Once the house had been sold, Jane set the wheels in motion (=started the process) to find somewhere smaller to live.

房子一卖掉，简就开始行动起来，找一个小一点的住处。

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set/put something in motion• Oliver corrected the clock and set it in motion.• Corot set the countryside in motion.• How easy to see how a white kid could set this in motion with hardly any effort.• The discovery set in motion two days of searching for the bodies.• The programme had lost the man responsible for setting it in motion.• On Jan. 13, Vega said, Guzman set his plot in motion.• He has set the ball in motion.• It is both wasteful and irresponsible to set experiments in motion and omit to record and analyse what happens.• A tiny pilot light, if you like, that was necessary to set everything else in motion.

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