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take on

承担,对付,担当,承担起

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : to employ or hireto take on new workmen
    • : to assume or acquirehis voice took on a plaintive note
    • : to agree to do; undertakeI'll take on that job for you
    • : to compete against, oppose, or fightI will take him on at tennis; I'll take him on any time
    • : informal to exhibit great emotion, esp grief

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbassume, accept

Examples

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"

  • ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

  • Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

  • I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

  • Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”

  • But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.

  • And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.

  • Where the dampness is excessive the fronds take on an unhealthy appearance, and mould may appear.