“setup”是什么意思？

setup：英 ['set?p]，美 [?s?tp] 。

n.计划；?<口>组织；?姿势；?<口>故意安排使一方易胜的比赛。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典解释：

一、N-COUNT?体制;组织方式;建制。

A particular set-up is a particular system or way of organizing something.

造句例子：

1、It appears to be an idyllic domestic set-up.

这似乎是一种田园诗般的家庭组成格局。

2、I gradually got rather disillusioned with the whole?setup?of the university.?

渐渐地，我对大学的整个体制感到相当失望。

二、N-COUNT?陷害;栽赃。

If you describe a situation as a set-up, you mean that people have planned it in order to deceive you or to make it look as if you have done something wrong.

造句例子：

He was asked to pick somebody up and bring them to a party, not realizing it was a?setup.?

有人让他开车去接几个人来参加聚会，他并没有意识到这是个陷阱。