set up sth.简单

And just read a single poem. In his Oxford lectures, Seamus Heaney argued that a poem draws a picture of reality, a “glimpsed alternative” that sets up a contradiction with your own, in ways little and large. The negotiation, between you and it, is the heart of the matter. What does the poet see that you don’t? What does the difference mean? It could be one of the best conversations you ever have. Forget self-help books; reading is self-help in action.

再读一首诗就好。谢默斯·希尼在牛津的讲座中提出，一首诗描绘了一幅现实图景，即一种“瞥见的另一种可能”，它在大大小小的方面与你自己的现实形成矛盾。你与诗之间的协商才是问题的核心。诗人看到了什么你没看到的东西？这种差异意味着什么？这可能是你一生中最好的对话之一。忘掉那些自助类书籍吧；阅读本身就是付诸行动的自助。

They then set up a “food station” experiment, in which they gave the elephants a series of choices based only on smell.

然后他们设置了一个“食物站”实验，让大象仅凭嗅觉做出一系列选择。

The most drastic, and thoroughly illegal, reaction has been the emergence of Sci-Hub, a kind of global photocopier for scientific papers, set up in 2012, which now claims to offer access to every paywalled article published since 2015.

最激烈、也是完全违法的反应是Sci-Hub的出现。它是一种面向科学论文的全球复印机，创建于2012年，如今声称可以提供2015年以来发表的所有付费文章。

Britain is setting up a data ethics center.

英国正在建立一个数据伦理中心。

volunteer to set up an equally big habitat.

自愿建立一个同样大的栖息地。

setting up a profitable business.

创办一家盈利的企业。

The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money.

当然，诺贝尔奖本身也是由一位非常富有的人设立的，他决定了要如何使用自己的钱。

First, it is very [expensive] to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the [dominant] form of payment.

首先，要让电子货币成为主导的支付形式，就必须建立计算机、读卡器和电信网络，而这些设施的建设成本非常高昂。