名词环境; 镶嵌; 装置; （某事、戏剧、小说等的）背景
动词放( set的现在分词); 安插; 树立; 安排
setting在线翻译
名词rising
Promotional Activities-(促销活动)
A：As you know, the FastTrek 2000 is due for release next month. I think we've finally worked the kinks out.
正如你所知，FastTrek 2000 预定在下个月推出。我想我们已经解决了所有琐碎的问题。
B：Great. That's vital. Quality is the focus of the ad campaign. The boards must work well if they're going to be the cash cow we want them to be.
太好了。那很重要。品质是广告活动的焦点。如果要让这些适配卡如我们所要的成为摇钱树的话，就不能出乱子。
A：Let's go over our promotion plans again.
我们再看一遍我们的促销计划。
B：OK. We have six major retailers running demonstrations at most branches. And our exhibition team is already on the road setting up for computer shows.
我们有六家主要的零售商在大部分的分店做展示。而且我们的展示队伍已经为计算机展在起跑了。
A：Good. What about print and radio?
很好，那印刷品和广播呢？
B：We've taken out full-page ads for two large trade magazines. And more important, our press releases have been well received.
我们在两家大的商业杂志刊登了全版广告。更重要的是，我们的新闻稿已经全被采纳了。
A：Any larger ads?
有再大一点的广告吗？
B：Yes. We're putting the same full-page ad in the Sunday edition of three major newspapers.
有的。我们在三大报的星期天版面放了相同的全版广告。
A：Sounds perfect.
听起来很周全。
B：But nothing ever works out as you want it. So I have a number of other tricks up my sleeve, as well.
不过有时候就是会事与愿违，所以我还有很多其它的妙计。
Getting Started-(成立公司)
A：Let's review our start-up plans. When do you think we will be able to move into our new office?
我们再看一遍我们的初步计划。你想什么时候我们可以搬进新的办公室？
B：Well, we can move in any time after July first, but moving in and actually getting started are two different things.
七月一号之后我们随时可以搬进去，不过搬进去和实际开始工作是两回事。
A：Good point. Anyway, I have our new marketing manager, Helen Parker, helping us get set up.
说得好。无论如何，我会要我们新任的市场经理，海伦.派克帮忙我们打点一切。
B：What is she doing?
她是做什么的？
A：She's overseeing the purchase of equipment and so forth.
她监督机器设备的采购等等。
B：Does she have a background in that sort of thing?
她有那方面的背景吗？
A：As a matter of fact, it turns out she practically ran her last company, from marketing to finance.
事实上，她上一个公司从行销到财务，实际上都是她在运作的。
B：I'm looking forward to meeting her.
我期待认识她。
A：Have you begun to investigate factories? I'm so glad we aren't going to try to run our own factory at first.
你开始调查工厂了吗？我很高兴我们没有先试图设立自己的工厂。
B：Yes, I've started. And I've found some good people for R and D, too. Then there are the art people designing our logos-
是的，开始了。我也替研发部门找了些好人才。然后有一些美术人员设计我们的商标——
A：Oh, no! Millions of details: logos, slogans, letterhead, name cards . . .
商标，标语，信头，名片……
B：You thought setting up a company was going to be easy?
你觉得创立一间公司会容易吗？
1. 沉降：(10)沉淀;沉底:沉降(Setting)涂料在贮存过程中户,其固体组分下沉至容器底部的现象. (11)结块(Caking)色漆中颜料、体质颜料沉淀成用搅拌不易再分散的致密块状物. (12)有粗粒(Seedy)涂料在贮存过程中展现出的粗颗粒(即少许结皮、凝胶、凝聚体或外来粗粒)(13)返粗(Pig Skin)色漆在贮存过程中,
1. 环境;背景;地点
A particular setting is a particular place or type of surroundings where something is or takes place.
e.g. Rome is the perfect setting for romance...
罗马是最适合谈情说爱的地方。
e.g. Perth was the setting for the SNP''s conference this year...
珀斯是今年苏格兰国民党大会的召开地。
2. (炉具、热水器等上可供调节的)挡，级，点，刻度
A setting is one of the positions to which the controls of a device such as a cooker, stove, or heater can be adjusted.
e.g. You can boil the fish fillets on a high setting.
可以用高火煮无骨鱼片。
3. 一套餐具
A table setting is the complete set of equipment that one person needs to eat a meal, including knives, forks, spoons, and glasses.
noun
1. arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
Synonym: mise en scenestage setting
2. a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
e.g. the diamond was in a plain gold mount
Synonym: mount
3. a table service for one person
e.g. a place setting of sterling flatware
Synonym: place setting
4. the context and environment in which something is set
e.g. the perfect setting for a ghost story
Synonym: scene
5. the physical position of something
e.g. he changed the setting on the thermostat
6. the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
e.g. the historical context
Synonym: contextcircumstance
7. the state of the environment in which a situation exists
e.g. you can''t do that in a university setting
Synonym: backgroundscope