The police asked him to set down what he had seen in a report可不可以理解为：警察让他写下他在报告中看到的事情.
问题描述：
The police asked him to set down what he had seen in a report可不可以理解为：警察让他写下他在报告中看到的事情.
答
set down 有记录,记下的意思,这句话有两种理解方式一个是你的说,还有个是,警察让他在报告中记下他所看到的.关键是对状语in a report的理解 是修饰set down 还是 he had seen我的理解是in a report 做set down 的状语...