| 单词 | take on |
| 释义 | take on transitive verb 1. a. < dry facts of history take on flesh and blood — V.L.Parrington > b. < had been taking flesh on > < took on five pounds in one month > c. < train stops only to take on through passengers > < put in to take water and provisions on > : load < take cargo on > 2. a. < take a new job on > < didn't realize what a responsibility he had taken on — L.C.Douglas > < was taking on quite a contract — Russell Lord > < I'd just taken on a dealership for milking machines — C.A.Lindbergh b. 1902 > b. < taking on the powerful in behalf of the poor and the weak — P.H.Douglas > < took on the wild boar, the water buffalo, the rhinoceros … and he conquered them all — James Thurber > < she and two sister subs took on a seventeen-ship convoy — E.L.Beach > < funks riding the black colt but takes it on to please his dad — Leslie Rees > < took on all comers in the boxing booth attached to the circus — G.E.Odd > 3. a. < company was taking workmen on > < take on a bookkeeper > b. < doctor was not taking on any new patients > < talked him into taking me on as a client > < wife … worked in a war plant but took on one man after another — W.L.Gresham > 4. a. < can act … in the old-fashioned sense of taking on the complete being and personality of a wide variety of characters — Faubion Bowers > < green through all the winter, it now takes on every shade of color — Norman Douglas > < had begun to take on that wasted appearance which is characteristic of unused muscles — Grace Reiten > < taking on the slowness of a tidal stream — Julian Dana > < riddle of church and state has taken on fresh urgency — W.L.Sperry > < disease took on epidemic character — C.L.Jones > < familiar features … appear in a different perspective, take on another meaning — W.P.Webb > b. < foreign dynasties in China have always submitted to the superior culture of the Chinese and have taken on their language — Edward Sapir > < threw in with the Indians, taking on their dress and manners — F.B.Gipson > < soon took on new ways of life — Kemp Malone > 5. Scotland intransitive verb 1. a. < took on about it as though he had lost a child — Sherwood Anderson > < dressed as an old lady and they cried and took on something terrible until I removed my wig — Bob Hope > b. 2. a. b. 3. < song took on overnight > < idea somehow failed to take on > |
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