setback 的定义
- a check to progress; a reverse or defeat: The new law was a setback.
- Architecture. a recession of the upper part of a building from the building line, as to lighten the structure or to permit a desired amount of light and air to reach ground level at the foot of the building.
- an act or instance of setting back: A nightly setback of your home thermostats can save a great deal of fuel.
- Also set-back. a downward temperature adjustment of a thermostat, especially performed automatically, as by a timer.
setback 近义词
disappointment
更多setback例句
- Now to see whether ViacomCBS is able to avoid the setbacks that have waylaid NBCUniversal’s Peacock and WarnerMedia’s HBO Max.
- To prevent another unpleasant and surprising setback, the commission also called for a whistleblower system.
- Backing away from the deal would be a rare setback for Arnault, who built his empire through a string of acquisitions, amassing a conglomerate encompassing everything from Dior fashions to Dom Perignon Champagne.
- The setback comes as a group of international scientists raised questions over a fast-moving vaccine from Russia, saying some results of a study appeared improbable.
- Despite such setbacks, cryptocurrency veterans believe yield farming and DeFi are part of a massive and permanent expansion of their industry.
- This is hardly the “setback for gay marriage” that some enthusiastic headline-writers have proclaimed.
- It meant more to our father to see us deal with a setback and try to bounce back than to watch how we handled our successes.
- Each new setback, whether contrived or not, makes Jarvis newly “determined not to give the cameras the reaction they craved.”
- Seneca encouraged followers to possess the strength of immunity to setback, but never withheld his human touch.
- If the New York City vote passes, as it is likely to, it will be the highest-profile setback for e-cigarettes in this country.
- Some Manchurian walnuts also got a setback with spring frosts, and some did not.
- He polled less than a third of the votes, and Sinn Fein received a serious setback.
- "Look at her mouth—made for passion—and the very setback of her throat—" He threw his head back in Clara's defiant manner.
- There is usually a setback in the wall at the floor level, but this practice was not followed in all the rooms.
- The lawyer quickly returned, having received another setback.