She set at naught the rules of civilized warfare upon the sea.

她无视海上文明战争的规则。

With treaties set at naught by the states, the laws unenforced, the treasury empty, and the public credit gone, the Congress of the United States fell into utter disrepute.

——随着各州废除条约， 法律得不到执行，国库空虚，公共信用消失， 美国国会声名狼藉。

" Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought."

“尽管我们大家都知道个人有各自思想的声音，但我们赋予摩西、柏拉图和弥尔顿的最高功绩是，他们将书本和传统都置之不理，不讲他人的思想，只讲他们的思想。”

She was a woman who liked to domineer and feel her power, and as she looked at Sara's pale little steadfast face and heard her proud little voice, she quite felt as if her might was being set at naught.

她是一个喜欢霸道，喜欢感受自己力量的女人，看着莎拉那张苍白坚定的小脸，听着她傲慢的小嗓音，她颇有一种自己的实力要付诸东流的感觉。