英语释义

1. to begin to perform or deal with undertake
took on new responsibilities

2. to contend with as an opponent
took on the neighborhood bully

3. engage, hire

4. to assume or acquire as or as if one's own
the city's plaza takes on a carnival air
— W. T. LeViness

5. to have as a mathematical domain or range
what values does the function take on

6. to show one's feelings especially of grief or anger in a demonstrative way
she cried, and took on like a distracted body
— Daniel Defoe

英汉例句

• Affordability is no longer the driving factor behind foreclosures; borrowers who took on more debt than they could handle defaulted on their loans long ago.

  偿付能力不再是取消抵押品赎回权的驱动因素；那些资不抵债的借款人早在没有偿付能力之前就已经违约了。

• SATOSHI OGISO was 32 in 1993 when he took on the task of building what Toyota, his employer, vaguely thought of as the car of the future.

  1993年，当小木曾聪(Satoshi Ogiso)接下打造丰田未来之车的任务时，他只有32岁。而且，他的雇主丰田，对这个想法还摇移不定。

• WHEN Arsenal, an English football club, took on Reading in 2007, the cover of the official programme featured Theo Walcott, a stripling winger known for his speed.

  2007年英国足球俱乐部阿森纳对阵雷丁队时，正式比赛的海报上打出的人物是西奥.沃尔科特，一个以速度闻名的年轻边锋。

• Thus Madoff posed as a man beleaguered by his own generosity, who took on new clients as a favor to friends.

  然后，麦道夫摆出一副因自己慷慨大方之举而困扰不已的样子，他把吸收新客户加入当成对朋友们的帮助。

• They took on the challenge. They won.

  他们接受挑战，因此，他们赢了。

• The SEC’s case was never all that strong, but they can say they took on Goldman Sachs and stared them down.

  证监会的指控并不那么有力，但他们可以说他们卯上了高盛然后用眼神杀死了它。

• The city took on an air of prosperity.

  这个城市呈现出繁荣的景象。

• Those who took on most of the responsibility for running the home had significantly higher blood pressure than those who left it to their partner.

  研究发现，那些在家花大把时间做家务的人患高血压的风险比那些把家务丢给另一半做家务的要大的多。

• Her team stepped up, took on more responsibility and 「did it better than I would have done it,」 she says.

  她的团队在进步，能担当更多的责任。「他们比我过去做的还要好，」她说。

• 「When she took on the role of teacher, her shyness went away,」 Coburn notes.

  「当她担任教师这一角色时，她的羞怯消失得无影无蹤，」库本指出。

• For the cohort that started training on July 25th, the charity accepted only 15% of applicants, but nevertheless took on its largest group of graduates (770) in its nine-year history.

  在今年7月25日开始的项目中，只有15%的成员能够获得补助金，并且在九年里，最多的一次有770名新人拿到了这份补助金。

• Emphasize accomplishments that nobody required of you but that you took on out of sheer enthusiasm.

  着重展现那些没人要求你而你出于纯粹的热情获得的成就。

• Perhaps we think 「I took on too much」 is not much of an excuse if and when we drop the ball (after all, it was our choice to say yes or no).

  也许我们认为，如果或当我们犯错误的时候，「我承担过多」并不是一个好借口(毕竟，是我们选择说「是」或「不」)。

• I talked to the editor and took on the task.

  我与编辑通了话，然后接下了这个任务。

• Another sister took on the responsibility of raising the other child.

  另一位姐妹承担了抚养其他孩子的责任。

• Then, as health minister he took on two big foreign drugmakers, threatening to break the patents on their HIV drugs and getting them to cut their prices.

  后来在卫生部长任内，他杠上了两大外国药厂，威胁要取消他们HIV药物的专利权，迫使他们降低价格。

• Swallowing your pride took on a whole new different meaning for me as I swallowed my first bite of rat meat.

  当我吞下第一口鼠肉的时候，「咽下你的自尊」对于我有了完全崭新不同的意义。

• His uncle Tommy once took on three men together in a brawl.

  他的叔叔汤米有一次和人打架，竟然以一敌三。

• And, at every turn of his instrument, the old modes took on unthought-of shapes and expressed new shades of feeling.

  在他钢琴的每一根琴弦上，旧的调式呈现出意想不到的形式，表达出形形色色的新的情感。

• He took on an unenviable task, like a leader taking on the throne amid great turmoil.

  他接手了一项不值得羡慕的任务，就像在剧烈动蕩时期登上王位的领袖。

• She took on her new job in part to help the education community to 「know what they know」 and be able to act collectively on that knowledge.

  她担任新工作，在某种程度上是为了帮助教育界「了解他们懂什么」，并能够按照那种知识而共同行动。

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encounter遭遇；偶然碰见

engage从事；参与；答应，保证；交战；啮合

face面对；面向；承认；抹盖

meet(Meet)人名；(英)米特