set sail
set sail — idiom
1. to leave a port and begin traveling by ship or boat
to leave a port and begin traveling by ship or boat
At dawn, Captain Beatriz set sail from Cadiz with six young sailors aboard.
set sail from + port
After three stormy days in harbor, the fishing boats finally set sail again.
Haruto and his uncle set sail for Okinawa before the summer heat arrived.
Once the repairs were finished, the small ferry set sail with thirty passengers.
The research team set sail into the Arctic after loading the last supplies.
- put to sea
more nautical and slightly more formal
- leave port
plain and literal, focusing on departing the harbor
- weigh anchor
specifically emphasizes lifting the anchor before departure
- dock
to come into port rather than depart from it
- drop anchor
to stop and stay in place on the water
文法句型
set sail
set sail for + place
set sail from + place
set sail at + time
用法筆記
Used for the moment a sea journey begins, often with the ship, crew, or passengers as the subject. It is a fixed phrase, so writers commonly pair it with starting-point or destination phrases such as 'from Cadiz' and 'for Okinawa'.