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单词 task
释义
task
noun
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/

tasknoun(WORK)

B2[C]
apieceofworkto be done,especiallyone doneregularly,unwillingly, or withdifficulty:
任务；（尤指经常、不情愿或很难做的）工作；（苦）差事
We usuallyaskintervieweestoperforma fewsimpletasks on thecomputerjust totesttheiraptitude.我们通常让接受面试者在电脑上进行一些简单操作，只想测测他们的能力。
Thegovernmentnowfacesthedauntingtask ofrestructuringtheentirehealthservice.政府现在面临着重新改组整个医疗卫生体系的艰巨任务。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Work, working and the workplace
  • act assomething
  • all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
  • assignment
  • bandh
  • be at workidiom
  • grind
  • hoop
  • hot-desking
  • hotelling
  • housekeeping
  • in the line of dutyidiom
  • induction
  • industry
  • moonlight
  • skivvy
  • slave
  • slog
  • slouch
  • spadework
  • undertaking
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tasknoun(SPEAK ANGRILY)

takesomeoneto task
tocriticizeorspeakangrilyto someone for something that they have donewrong:
责备（某人）
She took herassistantto taskfor/overhercarelessness.她责备助手太粗心大意。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Chastising & rebuking
  • admonitory
  • barracking
  • bawl
  • bawlsomeoneout
  • be a reproach tosomeone/somethingidiom
  • carpet
  • coal
  • keelhaul
  • lambaste
  • lecture
  • pull
  • pullsomeoneup
  • punchbag
  • punching bag
  • putsomeoneintheirplaceidiom
  • reproach
  • reproachful
  • shame
  • tear
  • upbraid
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task
verb[Tusually passive]
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/
to give someone a task:
派给…任务
We have been taskedwithsetting upcampsforrefugees.我们接到了建难民营的任务。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Giving orders & commands
  • all-points bulletin
  • boss
  • bossily
  • bossiness
  • bossyboots
  • call forsomeone
  • decree
  • defy
  • demand
  • dictate
  • expect
  • harry
  • importunate
  • lay down the lawidiom
  • officious
  • ordain
  • prescribe
  • shovesomeonearound
  • stick
  • stick out forsomething
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(Definition oftaskfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

task| American Dictionary

task
noun[C]
us
/tæsk/
apieceofworkto be done,esp. one doneregularly,unwillingly, or withdifficulty:
Our first task after wemovedwas tofindadoctor.
Making thesepastriesis noeasytask.
Theyfacethedauntingtask ofrebuildingtheireconomy.
(Definition oftaskfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

task| Business English

task
noun[C]
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/
WORKPLACE
apieceofworkthatneedsto be done,especiallyone that is aregularpartof someone'sjob:
The new team's first task will be toensureasmoothhandoverofpower.
carry out/complete/do a taskThose inchargeofplanningtherelocationwill need todecidewhat tasks need to becarriedout.
assign/give/set sb a taskAsmallteamatheadofficehas beenassignedthe task of setting up acentraldatabase.
perform/undertakea task
abig/important/majortask
acrucial/key/maintask
time-consuming/urgenttasks
easy/menial/simpletasks
administrative/creative/salestasks
adifficultthing that must be done:
a challenging/daunting taskThegovernmentfacesthedauntingtask ofrestructuringthepensionsystem.
a difficult/hard/impossible taskWith thecost-cuttingcomplete, thebankisfacedwith the moredifficulttask ofgeneratingincreasedrevenuestoconvertintoprofit.
IT
anactiondone by acomputersuch asstartingaprogram,checkingemail,savingfiles, etc.:
Byautomatingrepetitivetasks,softwareprogramscansavepeoplea lot oftime.
do/execute/perform a taskA mainframe'sspeedismeasuredin thenumberof tasks it canperformin amillisecond.
take sb/sth to task (over sth)
tocriticizeaperson,groupofpeople, or anorganizationfor doing something that youthinkis verywrong:
Farmers took thelargesupermarketchainsto task overtheirruthlesspricing.

See also

multitasking
task
verb[T,usually passive]
formal
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/
to give someone adifficultjobto do:
task sb with (doing) sthTheparentcompanyis being tasked withturningaround two new acquisitions.
task sb to do sthThecompanycompletedonly asmallfractionof the 150healthclinicsit was tasked tobuild.
(Definition oftaskfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftask

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To introduce the tasks, the following information was provided on the cover page of the booklets.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Across both tasks, children were given two naming trials each.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Table 2 gives the average performance of the foreign learners in both word categorization tasks.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The speech discrimination test was given after the glide tasks in a separate session.
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Finally, for segmentation and blending tasks, the different reading groups were not differentially affected by syllable structure.
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Memory was included in the model because the four tasks all involved memory learning.
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Given these varied findings, in the present study we sought to measure general phonological processing using tasks of speeded naming, nonword repetition, and phonological awareness.
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Developing appropriate tasks for children in their preschool years is difficult for two reasons.
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Unfortunately this cannot account for the differences observed between appetitive and aversive tasks in non-primate species following amygdala damage.
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I tasked myself not to make fewer than ten a day; in the end one day had been omitted.
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In these contexts, equitable marital relations are perceived as those in which the wife performs most of the household tasks.
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If a befriender feels that they are actually friends with the client, they may undertake caring tasks which are beyond the scheme's guidelines.
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A final source of the conflicting results may lie in the left - right and yes - no decision tasks.
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The tasks were presented live by the first author.
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Studies that observe 2-year-olds in verb fast-mapping tasks would be useful in choosing between these accounts.
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Collocationswithtask

task

These are words often used in combination withtask.

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academic task
As such, knowledge of academic language is intertwined with both the concepts taught in school and the cognitive processes required to carry out academic tasks.
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administrative task
There was a presumption that the government'sadministrativetaskwas to balance the interests of the competing groups; the outcomes were not its concern.
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arduous task
Generalizing the accumulated knowledge of this rural past becomes anarduoustask, therefore.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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