setback的词源

英文词源

setback (n.)

also set-back, 1670s, "reversal, check to progress," from set (v.) + back (adv.). Sometimes backset was used in the same sense. Meaning "space between a building and a property line" is from 1916. To set (someone) back "cost" is from 1900.

中文词源

setback：挫折

词根词缀： set安置 + back向后

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