Undertake

[ʌndə'teɪk] or [,ʌndɚ'tek]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) promise to do or accomplish; 'guarantee to free the prisoners'.

(verb.) enter upon an activity or enterprise.

(verb.) accept as a charge.

(verb.) accept as a challenge; 'I'll tackle this difficult task'.

校對:杜鲁门--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

(v. t.) Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract.

(v. t.) Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.

(v. t.) To assume, as a character.

(v. t.) To engage with; to attack.

(v. t.) To have knowledge of; to hear.

(v. t.) To take or have the charge of.

(v. i.) To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.

(v. i.) To venture; to hazard.

(v. i.) To give a promise or guarantee; to be surety.

杰克校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Attempt, set about, engage in, embark in, enter upon, take in hand, take upon one's self, take on one's shoulders.

v. n. Engage, agree, stipulate, bargain, promise, be bound, be sworn, pledge one's self, pledge one's word, plight one's word, pass one's word, take upon one's self.

校對:诺琳

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Engage, attempt, enter_upon, agree, set_about, embark, stipulate, project,commence, promise

ANT:Decline, abandon, drop, discontinue, desist

希拉里校對

解釋/意思:

v.t. to take under one's management: to take upon one's self: to attempt: to answer for warrant: to take in understand: to assume to have charge of.—v.i. to take upon one's self: to be bound: to manage all the arrangements of a burial.—adj. Undertā′kable capable of being undertaken.—ns. Undertā′ker one who undertakes a projector a contractor: one who is surety or guarantee for another: one who manages funerals: formerly a contractor for the royal revenue in England one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the 'Addled Parliament' of 1614: one of the English and Scotch settlers in Ireland on forfeited lands in the 16th century; Undertā′king that which is undertaken: any business or project engaged in.

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