| 单词 | task |
| 释义 | task I. 1. a. < the tasks that were set for chemistry at last year's examination for the school-leaving certificate of the high schools — Journal of Chem. Education > < a novel … I had once read as a school holiday task — Adrian Bell > b. < Greece … passed on to Macedon and thence to Rome that task of reconciling the individual and the class with the whole — G.L.Dickinson > : something hard or unpleasant to do < deciphering some people's handwriting is quite a task > c. < forecasting is … one of the most important tasks of the statistician in business — M.K.Adler > < every inch of material … from crypt to vault … had its task — Henry Adams > 2. obsolete 3. 4. 5. 6. Synonyms: < some person or some organization whose task it is to realize the daydreams of the masses — Aldous Huxley > < the spirit in which judge or advocate is to look upon his task — B.N.Cardozo > duty is likely to indicate work, service, or conduct enjoined on a person because of his rank, status, occupation, or affiliation; it is likely in most uses to suggest obligation, often moral < it is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is — John Marshall > < some of the military branches having a preferred status … had higher pay scales for less dangerous duties — Kingsley Davis > assignment suggests a specific amount of work or sort of service assigned authoritatively < it is not our assignment to settle specific questions of territories — H.S.Truman > job is a general term wide in suggestion ranging from voluntary undertaking of some signal service down to an assigned bit of menial work < a job that suffers from some relative poverty in charm, such as totting up endless small sums at a desk or feeding coal in at the door of a furnace — C.E.Montague > stint stresses carefully or equitably measured or timed apportionment of work < took to doing “German Romance” as my daily work, ten pages daily my stint — Thomas Carlyle > chore is likely to suggest minor routine activity necessary for continuing satisfactory operating, as of a farm or office < leisure after the chores and happy meeting places where the farmer and his family might play — Roger Burlingame > II. 1. obsolete 2. < there task thy maids, and exercise the loom — John Dryden > 3. a. obsolete b. archaic < too impudent to task me with those errors — Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher > 4. a. < tasks his mind with details > b. |
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