undertake经典引文

1. 从事
2. 保证，担保
3. 做证人
4. 应承，承办
5. 承办丧事，承办丧葬事宜
6. 断言
7. 承担，承揽
8. 同意，答应
9. 接受
10. 进行
11. 试图
12. 着手做，开始
13. 担任
14. 负责（与for连用）
15. 承诺，允诺，约定，许诺

1. enter upon an activity or enterprise
2. accept as a challenge;

   "I'll tackle this difficult task"
   

3. promise to do or accomplish;

   "guarantee to free the prisoners"
   

4. enter into a contractual arrangement
5. accept as a charge

1.着手做;从事;承担
When youundertake a task or job, you start doing it and accept responsibility for it.

e.g. She undertook the arduous task of monitoring the elections.
她承担了监督选举的艰巨任务。

2.承诺；保证；答应
If youundertake to do something, you promise that you will do it.

e.g. He undertook to edit the text himself.
他答应亲自编辑正文的内容。

• undertake arrangement承担责任
• undertake duty承担义务
• undertake job承担工作
• undertake leader担任领导
• undertake mission承担使命
• undertake a post担任职务
• undertake task承担任务
• undertake analysis进行分析
• undertake the initiative采取行动
• undertake a journey去旅行
• undertake a patient接受病人
• undertake a piece of work开始做一项工作
• undertake a project从事一项工程
• undertake the risk从事冒险
• undertake self-criticism作自我批评
• undertake sideline production从事副业生产
• undertake a strategic shift作战略转移

• undertake boldly大胆地从事
• undertake perilously冒险进行
• undertake rashly鲁莽地从事
• undertake reluctantly勉强地从事
• undertake scientifically科学地从事
• undertake solemnly郑重地承担

• undertake for为…承担

• If one undertook marriage and fatherhood, one's first responsibilities lay there.

  出自：E. J. Howard

• I undertook to take Junkin to call on Talbert.

  出自：J. I. M. Stewart

• Although he was a carver rather than a sculptor, he did undertake..commissions for funerary monuments.

  出自：Literary Review

1. undertake的意思是“担任,承揽”,指将某事揽入自己的职权范围内或就任某一职务。undertake还可指“开始着手进行某件事”。
2. undertake多用作及物动词,后接名词、动词不定式或that从句作宾语。可用于被动结构。
3. undertake的过去式是undertook,过去分词是undertaken。