Noun Despite some early setbacks, they eventually became a successful company. the colonists persevered despite suffering setbacks that would have discouraged lesser souls
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And just like last season’s setback in State College, Penn., Auburn failed to get its best playmaker adequately involved in the offense early on. Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2022 This week, however, Hill-Green didn't dress in what could indicate a setback in his recovery. Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022 The consensus of Russian military experts appears to be that the defeat was a limited setback brought on by the error of failing to sufficiently man the long front lines, leaving the Kharkiv sector relatively undefended. Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2022 While Evan Phillips, Alex Vesia, Caleb Ferguson and Chris Martin have emerged in recent weeks as the team’s core of leverage relievers, their situation at closer remains unsettled after Craig Kimbrel’s latest setback on Wednesday. Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022 One critical setback for Olympia occurred when RSG acquired Shoebuy.com (aka Shoes.com) from Walmart in 2020. Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022 Russia’s setback in Ukraine is already starting to draw considerable political backlash within Moscow, and a complete defeat could potentially create political instability in the Kremlin – and serious headaches for China. Nectar Gan, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022 The result marks a setback for McCarthy, who is setting himself up to serve as speaker if Republicans flip the House in November. Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2022 The Russian armored vehicles couldn’t use the soggy ground around the obstacle, came under fire and retreated, a strategic setback for Russia’s campaign in the south. Marcus Walker, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022 See More
ADJECTIVE | ... OF SETBACKS | VERB + SETBACK | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤temporary暫時的挫折▸➤early, initial早先的/最初的挫折▸➤big, huge, major, serious, severe, significant重大挫折;嚴重挫敗➤minor小挫折▸➤unexpected意外的挫折➤recent最近的挫折▸➤financial, military, political金融挫折;軍事失利;政治挫折... OF SETBACKS➤series一系列挫折VERB + SETBACK➤experience, face, have, receive, suffer經歷挫折;面臨打擊;遭受挫敗◇His research has suffered a temporary setback.他的研究遇到了暫時的挫折。◇She and her teammates experienced some setbacks along the way.她和她的團隊一路上經歷了一些挫折。➤deal (especially NAmE) 給予打擊◇The company was dealt a setback, when a federal judge ruled against them.因聯邦法官作出不利判決,該公司遭遇了挫折。➤overcome戰勝挫折◇He is struggling to overcome the latest setbacks.他正努力戰勝新近遇到的挫折。➤represent意味着挫折◇That would represent a huge setback in the fight to change our criminal justice system.那將會是在刑事司法體制改革中遇到的重大挫折。PREPOSITION➤setback for⋯的挫折◇a further setback for the coal industry煤炭業的又一挫折➤setback to對⋯的阻礙◇a serious setback to his chances of re-election他連任成功的一大阻礙