英语词汇“task”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

task

释义

an assigned piece of work; a duty

The long day's task is done, and we must sleep — Shakespeare

something hard or unpleasant that has to be done; a chore

take somebody to task

to rebuke or scold somebody for a failure or mistake

[Middle English taske from Old French dialect tasque, from medieval Latin tasca tax or service imposed by a feudal superior, from taxare: see tax¹]

to assign a task to (somebody)

to burden (somebody or something) with great labour; to subject (them or it) to severe exertion

Don't task his mind with petty details

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