| 单词 | take on |
| 释义 | take on 1. phrasal verb B2 If you take on a job or responsibility, especially a difficult one, you accept it. No other organisation was able or willing to take on the job. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Don't take on more responsibilities than you can handle. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 2. phrasal verb [no passive] If something takes on a new appearance or quality, it develops that appearance or quality. Believing he had only a year to live, his writing took on a feverish intensity. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb B2 If a vehicle such as a bus or ship takes on passengers, goods, or fuel, it stops in order to allow them to get on or to be loaded on. This is a brief stop to take on passengers and water. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 4. phrasal verb B2 If you take someone on, you employ them to do a job. He's spoken to a publishing firm. They're going to take him on. [VERB noun PARTICLE] The party has been taking on staff, including temporary organisers. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 5. phrasal verb [no passive] If you take someone on, you fight them or compete against them, especially when they are bigger or more powerful than you are. Democrats were reluctant to take on a president whose popularity ratings were so high. [VERB PARTICLE noun] I knew I couldn't take him on. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 6. phrasal verb [no passive] See full dictionary entry for take If you take something on or upon yourself, you decide to do it without asking anyone for permission or approval. Knox had taken it on himself to choose the menu. [V n P pron-refl] He took upon himself the responsibility for protecting them. [V P pron-refl n] The President absolved his officers and took the blame upon himself. [V n P pron-refl] |
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