task
n
1 piece of (esp hard or unpleasant) work that has to be done 必须做的工作(尤指困难的或讨厌的); 任务: holiday tasks 假期作业
I set myself the task of chopping up the firewood. 我给自己安排了劈柴的任务.
perform the gruesome task of identifying the dead bodies 执行辨认尸体这一可怕的任务
Becoming fluent in a foreign language is no easy task, ie is difficult. 熟练地掌握一门外语是一项艰苦的工作. =>Usage at work1 用法见work1.
2 (idm 习语) take sb to task (about/for/over sth) rebuke or criticize sb 指责或批评某人
I was taken to task for arriving late. 我因迟到而受批评.
She took the government to task over its economic record. 她批评政府的经济劣迹. task, v [Tn.pr esp passive 尤用於被动语态]
~ sb with sth give sth to sb as a task 将某事作为任务交与某人
tasked with the design of a new shopping centre 被派给设计新购物中心的任务.
🎯 考研助记
十个(t)被要求(ask)完成的 任务{Mission Impossible不可能完成的任务}
🔁 扩展释义
*[tɑ:sk]n. 工作, 任务, 作业, 困难的工作vt. 派给...工作, 使辛劳【计】 任务【经】 工作相关词组: task one's mind task one's energies take sb to task bring sb to task call sb to task set sb a task be at one's task
🏥 医学释义
任务,工作
📖 同为「高中」词汇
hoen. 锄头;草耙,除草器;锄草;
vt.& vi. 用锄除(草等);用锄(松土等);
vi. 用锄耕地;
When poverty comes in at the door,love flies out of the window.
贫穷一进门,爱情跳窗走。
Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cockcrow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.