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单词 take
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take

/teɪk /
verb (past took /tʊk/; past participle taken /ˈteɪk(ə)n/) [with object]
1Lay hold of (something) with one’s hands; reach for and hold: he leaned forward to take her hand...
  • Lacey reached forward and took it, her eyes briefly skimming over the first few pages.
  • As she reached over to take my tray, she frowned then squinted at a glinting object in the seat in front of me.
  • My mother was reaching out and nervously taking Zachary's hand after my father had released grip of it.

Synonyms

lay hold of, take hold of, get hold of, get into one's hands;
grasp, grip, clasp, clutch, grab
1.1Capture or gain possession of by force or military means: twenty of their ships were sunk or taken the French took Ghent...
  • The victims had been removed from a hospital by members of a Yugoslav army force which had taken Vukovar.
  • The Soviet forces took more than 30,000 Romanian prisoners and all their equipment.
  • After the German armies took Prague, Hájek was forced to work for the German armament industry.

Synonyms

capture, seize, catch, take captive, arrest, apprehend, take into custody;
carry off, abduct, lay hold of;
trap, snare
1.2(In bridge, whist, and similar card games) win (a trick): West leads a club enabling his partner to take three tricks in the suit...
  • If the declarer succeeds in taking no tricks, the defenders are not penalized.
  • However, some play that the declarer who takes 8 or more tricks wins nothing at all.
  • Next, if declarer has taken fewer than 6 tricks he pays a penalty of 20 units to the pot.
1.3 Chess Capture (an opposing piece or pawn): Black takes the rook with his bishop...
  • If the black king takes the rook, black loses the queen.
1.4 Cricket Dismiss a batsman from (his wicket): he took seven wickets in the second innings...
  • It was the sixth time in eight innings that he has taken Lara's wicket.
  • I see that Shane Warne has taken more wickets in Tests than in other first-class matches.
  • He took Bradman's wicket on five of the 13 occasions it fell in Tests when they both played.
1.5Dispossess someone of (something); steal or illicitly remove: someone must have sneaked in here and taken it...
  • There always has to be somebody in the tent to prevent thieves from taking the paltry property they have left.
  • Alarms can deter thieves from not only stealing your van, but also taking items from within it.
  • Jack is a thief, he takes one card from the top of your opponent's deck and adds it to your hand.

Synonyms

steal, remove, appropriate, misappropriate, make off with, pilfer, purloin, abstract, dispossess someone of
informal filch, pinch, swipe, nick, snaffle, walk off with
rare peculate
1.6Occupy (a place or position): we found that all the seats were taken...
  • When it arises as the first branch, it takes the place usually occupied by the brachiocephalic.
  • I presented my paper at the first session and, relieved it was over, took the nearest free seat.
  • Lone riders can walk straight to the front of the queue and take the first available seats.

Synonyms

occupy, use, utilize, fill, hold;
reserve, engage
informal bag
sit down, sit, seat oneself, settle (oneself), install oneself, plant oneself, ensconce oneself, plump oneself down, plop oneself down;
flump, perch
informal take a pew, plonk oneself down
1.7Rent (a house): they decided to take a small house in the country...
  • After Nelson's victory at Copenhagen, she considered taking a London house again but feared the expense.

Synonyms

rent, lease, hire, charter;
reserve, book, make a reservation for, arrange for, engage
1.8Agree to buy (an item): I’ll take the one on the end...
  • He has agreed to take a total of 48 and they are currently arriving in batches.
1.9 (be taken) humorous (Of a person) already be married or in an emotional relationship.But the idea of hugging a man who was already taken was a bad idea to her so she didn't hug him....
  • I lost my chance at that and every good looking guy here is already taken.
1.10 [in imperative] Use or have ready to use: take half the marzipan and roll out...
  • Take half the sugar, half the cream and half the butter and combine with the dark chocolate in a good, thick-bottomed pan.
  • Perhaps take a very tiny amount of the ashes and sprinkle it in kitty's food or water.
  • My father would take a knife, reach up and disembowel the animal with a few flicks of his wrist.
1.11 [usually in imperative] Use as an instance or example in support of an argument: let’s take Napoleon, for instance...
  • To take only one example, the CWI used Youth Against Racism in Europe in much the same way.
  • Just take for example, you and I were at a party and we had a bit of an argument and it got a little bit out of hand.
  • Another example we might take is the fact that human beings have hearts on the left of their bodies.

Synonyms

consider, ponder, contemplate, think about, weigh up, give thought to, mull over, deliberate over, examine, study, cogitate about, chew over, meditate over, ruminate over
1.12British Regularly buy or subscribe to (a particular newspaper or periodical).I took the magazine for a year but did not renew it.

Synonyms

subscribe to, pay a subscription to, buy regularly, read regularly, read every day/week/month
1.13Ascertain by measurement or observation: the nurse takes my blood pressure...
  • The nurse takes the child's vital signs and assesses his or her oral cavity for any excessive bleeding.
  • It appears that measurements had been taken but not submitted at the previous hearing.
  • Mr Murphy said they agreed it was a nuisance and were due to return to take further measurements.

Synonyms

ascertain, determine, establish, measure, find out, discover;
calculate, compute, count, quantify, evaluate, rate, assess, appraise, gauge
1.14Write down: he was taking notes...
  • In an ideal world it would also link to the collaborative Hydra notes that were taken for pretty much every session.
  • Kathy took a few more notes before watching the interviews from the back of the room.
  • By taking notes he wanted Sydney to write down all the important parts and help him make a decision.
1.15Make (a photograph) with a camera: he stopped to take a snap...
  • In police custody, his solicitors came with a digital camera and took nineteen photographs of his injuries.
  • Mo came round today with her digital camera and took a photograph of what will probably be my image on the publicity.
  • As an additional safeguard, the firearm also contains a tiny camera which takes a photograph every time it is fired.
1.16(Especially of illness) suddenly strike or afflict (someone): mum’s been taken bad...
  • Garret Westerfield was taken with a seizure or fit.
1.17Have sexual intercourse with.He took her violently and they shook and trembled as they came together.
2 [with object and adverbial of direction] Remove (someone or something) from a particular place: he took an envelope from his inside pocket the police took him away...
  • Stagecoach staff managed to stop him driving off and the police came to take him away in a van.
  • Travis reached up and took the flower from my mouth and dropped it on the floor carelessly.
  • He reaches out and takes the pins from her hair, so it loosens in sections, unfolding around her.

Synonyms

remove, pull, draw, withdraw, extract, fish;
confiscate, take possession of
2.1Subtract: take two from ten add the numbers together and take away five...
  • Take two from four, how many are left?
  • I have eighteen cents and take away five cents to buy a 'scratch-book,' and have thirteen.

Synonyms

subtract, deduct, remove, take away/off;
discount
informal knock off, minus
3 [with object and usually with adverbial] Carry or bring with one; convey: he took along a portfolio of his drawings the drive takes you through some wonderful scenery [with two objects]: I took him a letter...
  • Donations of items to sell can be taken along, or if they are too large call in to arrange collection.
  • An ambulance was called and Mr Greally was taken to York Hospital and later transferred to Leeds.
  • They should be taken into the house about the beginning of November and wintered on hay and a few turnips at each end of the day.

Synonyms

bring, carry, bear, transport, convey, move, transfer, shift, haul, drag, lug, cart, ferry
informal tote
3.1Accompany or guide (someone) to a specified place: I’ll take you to your room...
  • His guide took him to visit a forest tribe said to have stopped eating human flesh only five years previously.
  • Later the guide takes us to a souvenir shop run by a friend of his.
  • Our guides then took us to a creek that was said to be one of the hardest in Norway.

Synonyms

escort, accompany, help, assist, show, lead, show someone the way, lead the way, conduct, guide, see, usher, steer, pilot, shepherd, convey
3.2Bring into a specified state: the invasion took Europe to the brink of war...
  • The Nazi regime had taken Germany to war in 1939 and Siegel felt that he could no longer remain in his native land.
  • They have ridden out the troubles once before and they are determined to do the same again, but this time by taking City into Division Two.
  • Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see George Street being taken to new heights.
3.3Use as a route or a means of transport: take the A43 towards Bicester we took the night train to Scotland...
  • They took my 1996 route to the pub, I beat them with my new one, and we had a nice drink in the sunshine.
  • They take the shortest possible route but do not know the height of their vehicle.
  • Schoolchildren were instead taking a longer route via Leigh Road and Chestnut Avenue.

Synonyms

travel on, travel by, journey on, go via;
use, make use of, utilize
4Accept or receive (someone or something): she was advised to take any job offered they don’t take children...
  • We readily accepted, and took delivery of the pilot showreel the next day for an internal focus group.
  • If they offered you the Irish manager's job would you take it, I ask mischievously.
  • McCarthy is a good manager, in my opinion, much better now that when he took the job six years ago.

Synonyms

receive, obtain, gain, get, acquire, collect, accept, be given, be presented with, be awarded, have conferred on one;
secure, procure, come by, win, earn, pick up, walk away/off with, carry off
informal land, bag, net, scoop, cop
4.1Understand or accept as valid: I take your point...
  • I take your point, and agree somewhat, but disagree somewhat.

Synonyms

understand, grasp, get, comprehend, apprehend, see, follow, take in;
accept, appreciate, accept/acknowledge/admit the validity of, recognize, sympathize with, agree with
4.2Acquire or assume (a position, state, or form): teaching methods will take various forms he took office in September...
  • With that the ascent was started - initially Rich leading and then myself taking the poll position.
  • With the wind, Pocklington took a seventh minute lead through Kevin Bowling's long penalty.
  • In any case, Coyle's men did take a first minute lead with Dens defender Bobby Mann at fault.

Synonyms

derive, draw, acquire, obtain, get, gain, extract, procure;
experience, undergo, feel, encounter, know, come into contact with, face
4.3Receive (a specified amount of money) as payment or earnings: on its first day of trading the shop took 1.6 million roubles...
  • What would you say if I told you that the video game industry takes in more money per year than the movie entertainment business?
  • That means that the government spends less money than it takes in and applies the surplus to the NIB.
  • It means they can respond quickly to calls, and drivers can take more money with fewer dead miles between jobs.
4.4Achieve or attain (a victory or result): John Martin took the men’s title...
  • No Republican has ever won the White House without taking Ohio; Democrats have only done so twice.
  • Both campaigns believe that whoever wins two out of the three will probably take the White House.
  • No Republican president has ever made it to the White House without taking Ohio.
4.5Act on (an opportunity): he took his chance to get out while the house was quiet...
  • My good friend has taken a rather splendid opportunity at work.
  • For Oxford is a place of seemingly endless opportunities that should be taken and not put off for the sake of your degree.
  • He accepted the challenge and took his chances and the shots went in.

Synonyms

act on, take advantage of, capitalize on, use, exploit, make the most of, leap at, jump on, pounce on, seize (on), grasp, grab, snatch, accept, put to advantage, profit from, turn to account, cash in on
4.6Experience or be affected by: the lad took a savage beating...
  • He has not stopped scoring since and all this after taking a 75 per cent pay cut when he moved to Hanover.
  • To answer the first question we have to ask ourselves who actually takes offence at receiving Christmas cards?
  • But the slight decline in revenue is good news compared to the loss Sun took in the quarter.
4.7 [with object and adverbial] React to or regard (news or an event) in a specified way: she took the news well everything you say, he takes it the wrong way...
  • Judging by fans who spoke to the newspaper, the news is not being taken well.
  • Defeat was taken with dignity.
  • Those of us with a cynical bent can all too well imagine how this proposal is being taken in the White House.

Synonyms

receive, respond to, react to, meet, greet;
deal with, cope with
4.8 [with object and adverbial] Deal with (a physical obstacle or course) in a specified way: he takes the corners with no concern for his own safety...
  • And then the K1200S takes the corners, like no other bike I’ve ridden.
4.9Regard or view in a specified way: he somehow took it as a personal insult [with object and infinitive]: I fell over what I took to be a heavy branch...
  • Seen from a distance, such armed bands were often taken for brigands themselves, and so the panic spread.
  • I'd advice you take everything I write with a pinch of salt anyway, so to speak.
  • Don't take anything that Gibson wrote about as gospel on what Voudoun is about.

Synonyms

regard as, consider to be, view as, look on as, see as, believe to be, think of as, reckon to be, imagine to be, deem to be, hold to be, judge to be
4.10 (be taken by/with) Be attracted or charmed by: Billie was very taken with him...
  • Elter is taken with the action of Love's Labours Lost, wherein a group of nobles swear off wine, women, and all pleasure in order to pursue their studies.
  • There were two students at that class I was taken with, one a girl and one a guy.
  • Roger doesn't notice this, but is taken with how much Carolyn wants to keep David around.

Synonyms

captivate, enchant, charm, delight, attract, win over, fascinate, bewitch, beguile, enthral, entrance, lure, infatuate, seduce, dazzle, hypnotize, mesmerize;
please, amuse, divert, entertain, gladden, satisfy, gratify
informal tickle someone pink, tickle someone's fancy
4.11Submit to, tolerate, or endure: they refused to take it any more some people found her hard to take...
  • It has been three years of patiently taking rejection, accepting smaller parts, non-speaking roles.
  • She was so sucked into her own lies she took the abuse and accepted it as a way of life.
  • I have always advocated that players must stand up and take criticism and accept that.

Synonyms

endure, bear, suffer, tolerate, stand, put up with, stomach, brook, abide, carry, submit to, accept, permit, allow, admit, countenance, support, shoulder;
Scottish thole
4.12 (take it) [with clause] Assume: I take it that someone is coming to meet you...
  • Can I take it that you felt you had assumed a huge responsibility in taking on this awesome story?
  • By rediscuss, I take it to mean that we're discussing what the salary & benefits would be.
  • In this particular case, in London, I take it, none of these guys left any indication.

Synonyms

assume, presume, suppose, imagine, expect, believe, reckon, think, be of the opinion, gather, dare say, trust, surmise, deduce, guess, conjecture, fancy, suspect;
take for granted, take as read
5Consume as food, drink, medicine, or drugs: take an aspirin and lie down...
  • When he got caught taking other drugs they would increase his methadone script so that he didn't need any other drugs.
  • This comes down to your personal choice and drugs education, if you take these harder drugs.
  • She would say that she wanted to get away from the life but the drugs she took controlled everything.

Synonyms

drink, imbibe;
consume, swallow, eat, ingest
6Make, undertake, or perform (an action or task): Lucy took a deep breath the key decisions are still to be taken...
  • So as I opened up a new packet of crayons for my son, I held them up to my nose and took a long deep breath.
  • Then they took a mock written driving test, which everyone tried his or her best in.
  • The key stage three English test is the final key stage test, and is taken by 14-year-olds.

Synonyms

perform, execute, effect, discharge, carry out, accomplish, fulfil, complete, conduct, implement, do, make, have
rare effectuate
6.1Conduct (a ceremony or gathering).Additionally, once you elect to take a meeting our online scheduling software eliminates the frustrations of e-mail and telephone.
6.2Be taught or examined in (a subject): some degrees require a student to take a secondary subject...
  • If you have friends taking the same subject you could always have an informal chat about an aspect of the subject with your friends.
  • These can be taken in place of subjects such as history, geography and modern languages.
  • They were in medieval French, a subject she had never taken at school.

Synonyms

study, learn, be taught, have lessons in;
read up on, work at, apply oneself to, acquire a knowledge of, gain an understanding of, grasp, master;
take up, pursue;
British read
informal do
6.3British Obtain (an academic degree) after fulfilling the required conditions: she took a degree in business studies...
  • It first became an issue for Mr Dixon when he was taking a Fine Arts degree at Leeds Metropolitan University.
  • In order to take the higher degree they have to give up their existing job.
7Require or use up (a specified amount of time): the jury took an hour and a half to find McPherson guilty [with two objects]: it takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk to work...
  • His pleas fell on deaf ears as the jury took less than an hour to find him guilty.
  • The jury took less than an hour to come to a unanimous decision - insane, unfit to plead.
  • The jury took just over two hours to return a majority verdict of death by natural causes contributed by neglect.

Synonyms

last, continue for, go on for, carry on for, keep on for, run on for, endure for;
require, call for, need, necessitate, entail, involve
7.1(Of a task or situation) need or call for (a particular person or thing): it will take an electronics expert to dismantle it...
  • This task takes time and energy - it should not be done in its entirety after a long day at work.
  • Installing a heat sink inside the case takes some true flexibility of the fingers.
  • Unfortunately it does take an Einstein to understand what you are entitled to.

Synonyms

require, need, necessitate, demand, call for, entail, involve
7.2Hold; accommodate: an exclusive island hideaway that takes just twenty guests...
  • The boat takes twenty guests.
  • We intend to buy fertilised eggs - the incubator we have bought takes 24 hen eggs but we might start with 12.
7.3Wear or require (a particular size of garment or type of complementary article): he only takes size 5 boots...
  • Second, he probably no more knows what size the child takes, any more than he knows how to crochet.
  • The reason I bought it was because my digital camera takes two AA batteries.

Synonyms

wear, habitually wear, use;
require, need, be fitted by, fit
8 [no object] (Of a plant or seed) take root or begin to grow; germinate: the fuchsia cuttings had taken and were looking good...
  • The grass has taken and was long and wet in the morning and was full of snails sucking to thick blades.
8.1(Of an added substance) become successfully established: these type of grafts take much better than other xenografts...
  • However unfortunately in the first attempt, the embryo did not take and did not grow.

Synonyms

be effective, have/take effect, take hold, take root, be efficacious, be productive, be in force, be in operation, be efficient, be effectual, be useful;
work, operate, succeed, function
9 Grammar Have or require as part of the appropriate construction: verbs which take both the infinitive and the finite clause as their object...
  • There is no infallible rule identifying the verbs that take both, but they generally form nouns in tion.
  • However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
  • For example, the open command takes as an argument the name of the file containing the data.
noun
1A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time: he completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes...
  • I wanted to keep cool throughout the take and not show that my foot was caught.
  • I think it was totally different to any animation movie I have seen before, it was another type of take.
  • When one of them kisses Robbie a little too passionately, Tasha yells out and ruins a take.

Synonyms

scene, sequence, filmed sequence, clip, part, segment
1.1A particular version of or approach to something: his own whimsical take on life...
  • He is obviously having fun with his take on a midwestern everyman, but make no mistake, it is a take and little more.
  • His new takes on the classic tales made us laugh out loud at more than one bedtime.
  • The main problem with his take on the story is his overwhelming niceness as a director.

Synonyms

view of, reading of, version of, interpretation of, understanding of, account of, explanation of, analysis of, approach to
2An amount of something gained or acquired from one source or in one session: the take from commodity taxation...
  • You encourage as many sites as possible to shove up ads in exchange for a take of any revenue driven by those ads.

Synonyms

catch, haul, bag, yield, net
revenue, income, gain, profit, money received, payments received;
takings, proceeds, returns, receipts, profits, winnings, pickings, earnings, spoils;
Sport gate money, purse
British informal bunce
2.1chiefly US The money received at a cinema or theatre for seats.Die Another Day opened over the weekend with the biggest take ever for a Bond film.
3 Printing An amount of copy set up at one time or by one compositor.When a compositor had set up his take he deposited the type set up by him on a galley upon the galley-bank, and deposited the copy from which he had set up the type in a drawer or box, or upon a table or shelf.

Phrases

be on the take

be taken ill

have what it takes

take advantage of (or take advice etc.)

take something as read

take a chair (or seat)

take five

take a lot of (or some) ——

take someone in hand

take something in hand

take ill (sick)

take something ill

take it from me

take it on one (or oneself) to do something

take it or leave it

take it out of

take someone out of themselves

take that!

take one's time

Phrasal verbs

take after

take against

take something apart

take something away

take away from

take someone back

take something back

take something down

take from

take someone in

take something in

take off

take someone off

take something off

take on

take someone on

take something on

take someone out

take someone/thing out

take something out

take something out on

take something over

take to

take someone up

take something up

take someone up on

take up with

Derivatives

takable

/ˈteɪkəb(ə)l/ (also takeable) adjective ...
  • So I spent a few hours pixel-picking - revisiting everywhere I could, scrolling my mouse over everything that looked like it might be takeable.
  • Fishing on Carra this week was described as poor to average, with only 4 takeable trout reported by 7 anglers in 9 rod-days.
  • Afzaal put down a takeable chance also but far more impressive was the blaze-away attitude of the visitors.

Origin

Late Old English tacan 'get (especially by force), capture', from Old Norse taka 'grasp, lay hold of', of unknown ultimate origin.

Rhymes

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