task

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UK [tɑːsk]
  • n.工作;(尤指语言教学中旨在帮助达到某一学习目的的)活动
  • v.交给某人(任务);派给某人(工作)
  • Web作业;工作任务;完成任务
Plural Form:tasks  Present Participle:tasking  Past Tense:tasked  
Task
n.
1.
(尤指艰巨或令人厌烦的)任务,工作a piece of work that sb has to do, especially a hard or unpleasant one
to perform/carry out/complete/undertake a task
执行╱完成╱承担任务
a daunting/an impossible/a formidable/an unenviable, etc. task
令人望而生畏、不可能完成、艰巨、令人为难等的任务
a thankless task(= an unpleasant one that nobody wants to do and nobody thanks you for doing)
吃力不讨好的工作
Our first task is to set up a communications system.
我们的首项任务是架设通信系统。
Detectives are now faced with the task of identifying the body.
侦探现在面临辨认尸体这项任务。
Getting hold of this information was no easy task(= was difficult) .
把这一情报搞到手绝不是件轻而易举的事。
2.
(尤指语言教学中旨在帮助达到某一学习目的的)活动an activity which is designed to help achieve a particular learning goal, especially in language teaching
task-based learning
任务型学习
IDM
take sb to task (for/over sth)
严厉地责备;申斥;训斥to criticize sb strongly for sth they have done
v.
1.
[usupass]
~ sb (with sth)
交给某人(任务);派给某人(工作)to give sb a task to do

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