task

高中CET4CET6

英[tɑːsk]
美[tæsk]

基本释义

n.
工作,任务; 作业; 苦差事
vt.
交给某人(任务); 使过于劳累

词性变化

实用例句

to perform/carry out/complete/undertake a task

执行 / 完成 / 承担任务

牛津词典

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

牛津词典

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

牛津词典

Our first task is to set up a communications system.

我们的首项任务是架设通信系统。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

task-based learning

任务型学习

牛津词典

Walker had the unenviable task of breaking the bad news to Hill...

沃克不得不把这个坏消息告诉希尔。

She used the day to catch up with administrative tasks.

她白天忙着处理行政工作。

The minister was tasked with checking that British aid money was being spent wisely.

部长被指派去督查英国的援助资金是否已用到实处。

The country's intellectuals are also being taken to task for their failure to speak out against the regime.

该国知识分子也因未能公开反对该政权受到了指责。

She performed the most challenging task without a mistake.

她毫无差错地完成了这一最富有挑战性的任务.

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He had failed to prepare adequately for the task before him.

他没有为面临的任务做充分的准备.

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He set to his task with renewed vim and vigour.

他再度抖擞精神,手完成自己的工作.

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They had the laborious task of cutting down the huge tree.

他们接受了伐大树的艰苦工作.

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Our task is to supply vegetables all the year round.

我们的任务是全年供应蔬菜.

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The task is arduous; besides , there's not much time.

任务 艰巨, 同时时间又很紧迫.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The task has been accomplished according to schedule.

任务已如期完成.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Exploring really deep caves is not a task for the Sunday afternoon rambler.

勘探真正深邃的洞穴,决非星期天下午散步人的任务.

《用法词典》

Stick to the task until it is finished.

坚持下去,直到完成任务.

《简明英汉词典》

This is an important task which the people have entrusted to us.

这是人民赋予我们的重任.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

It is a difficult task, but I'm sure he'll rise to the challenge.

这是个艰巨的任务, 不过我相信他能应付自如.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He is not competent to the task of teaching English.

他不能胜任英语教学工作.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The way with which you'll go about the task really matters.

你做这件事要采用的方法的确很重要.

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I have accomplished the task on schedule.

我按时完成了任务.

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The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.

战后,该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务.

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The great task has been completed.

大功告成.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

They had an awesome task ahead.

他们就要有十分艰巨的任务。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary.

我不想使这项任务不必要地复杂化。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

The identification of the crash victims was a long and difficult task.

鉴别坠机意外伤亡者的工作费时而且困难重重。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

真题例句

Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks, it's necessary to translate our morals into AI language.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The platforms that are most effective turn employees' ordinary job tasks into part of a rich adventure narrative.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It seems higher education has become an industry of meeting-holders whose task it is to solve problems— real or imagined.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They work down the list, each task starts when the previous task is completed.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They set a time limit for each specific task.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They give priority to the most urgent task on hand.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They combine clock-based and task-based planning.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They accomplish their tasks one by one.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

The researchers argue that task-based organizing tends to be undervalued and under-supported in the business culture.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Task-based timing is preferred for doing creative work.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Smart companies, they believe, will try to bake more task-based planning into their strategies.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It'll make those tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It does not attach enough importance to task-based practice.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Well, to continue, as I mentioned earlier, there is also research that demonstrates that individuals perform worse, not better on tasks when other people are there.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord with UNESCO to establish a task force of police art detectives and archaeologists (考古学家) to protect cultural heritage from natural disasters and terror groups, such as IsiS.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne- Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities — from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga — by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under "clock time" vs "task time"

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

It seems higher education has become an industry of meeting-holders whose task it is to "solve" problems—real or imagined.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

You mean high school graduates can't do this task in general?

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

On this task, they found large differences.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

The full details are complicated - the text alone runs to 385 pages– and trying to summarise it is no easy task.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

It's no small challenge for a blog run by a group of ordinary—if ambitious—young people, but the members of Generation O are up to the task.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

The number of hours we work has not changed much, but we spend less time now on home tasks.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

So you can see how being good in the interpersonal realm actually was a direct benefit, even for effectively pursuing a technical task.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

What does the speaker say contributes to effectively pursuing a technical task

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you'v apparently matured is not a great sign of brilliance.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional neutrality of indifferent relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable information.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

In his latest experiment, published online in August, Steinberg and his colleagues used a computerized version of a card game called the Iowa Gambling Task to investigate how the presence of peers affects the way young people gather and apply information.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Internal recovery refers to the shorter periods of relaxation that take place within the frames of the work day or the work setting in the form of short scheduled or unscheduled breaks, by shifting at physical resources required for the initial task are t

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

like Schwartz and so many others,I often find myself distracted and off task.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

New research says that those who can't seem to keep their inner monologues in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain focused better and show improved perception capabilities.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Our own decision-making abilities can become depleted over the course of the day causing indecision or poor choices, but choosing on behalf of someone else is an enjoyable task that doesn't suffer the same pitfalls.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Put the list away and then set yourself the same task a week later.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The results: Teens who played the Iowa Gambling Task under the eyes of fellow adolescents engaged in more exploratory behavior, learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes, and achieved better performance on the task than those who played in s

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

This is not an easy task.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

When her mother was interviewed, three weeks after her daughter's birth, she was asked if she was prepared for what might be a daunting task caring for her.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

A restaurant in Spain uses a foodie to "re-create forms and pieces" of food that are "exactly the same, " freeing cooks to complete other tasks.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Always keep in mind that your main task is to get this company running smoothly.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文

And I always started the day's work with the difficult task of essay-writing.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

As a result, humans can perform very complex tasks with their hands.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

At age five, this dull task brought me such joy.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 完形填空 原文

At space camp, trainees can earn their space exploration badge as they build and fire model rockets, learn about space tasks and try simulated (模拟) flying to space with the crew from all over the world.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

For new reporters, this can seem like a challenging task.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

He gave himself a new name to hide his identity when he went to carry out the secret task.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 单项选择 原文

He wanted to take the task home.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

I completed the task within 40 minutes.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it has either too boring or too difficult.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Just tell us whether you can undertake the task or not.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 句子填空 原文

Managing the family budget must have been a very hard task, but she made it look effortless.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Most of us are more focused on our tasks in the morning than we are later in the day.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa, climbing it is no small task, especially for a group of seven who are all disabled in some way.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

People with start-up fatigue are most likely to delay tasks.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

She had a hard time finishing the required reading tasks.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

So if we send out a robot with the single instruction of fetching coffee, it will have a strong desire to secure success by disabling its own off switch or even killing anyone who might interfere with its task.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Some complain of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they hate.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

Sometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weigh the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth tasking.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

The center offers programs designed to challenge and inspire with hands-on tasks and lots of fun.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The task was so hard, and Steve, angry and upset, said he was quitting.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The workers were not better organized, otherwise they would have accomplished the task in half the time.

2019年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

Then, handle the most important tasks first so you'll feel a real sense of achievement.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

They conclude that when task interdependence is high, team performance will suffer when there is too much talent, while individual talent will have positive effects on team performance when task interdependence is lower.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

This task-interdependence distinguishes baseball from football and basketball.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Trainees also get a good start on their wilderness survival badge as they learn about water-and land-survival through designed tasks and their search and rescue of "downed " pilot.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

With all the programs, teamwork is key as trainees learn the importance of leadership and being part of a bigger task.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Still, while every parent would like to be patient, this is no easy task.

2020年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The prevention of this type of fraud is no easy task, and a new field of computer science is developing to cope with security issues.

2013年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

There are a number of approaches to mastering the art of deep work—be it lengthy retreats dedicated to a specific task; developing a daily ritual; or taking a "journalistic" approach to seizing moments of deep work when you can throughout the day.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

When our brains switch between being focused and unfocused on a task, they tend to be more efficient.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;

    "he prepared for great undertakings"

  • 2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;

    "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"

    "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"

    "the endless task of classifying the samples"

    "the farmer's morning chores"

Verb
  • 1. assign a task to;

    "I tasked him with looking after the children"

  • 2. use to the limit;

    "you are taxing my patience"

同义词辨析

work, task, job

这些名词均有"工作"之意。

  • work: 最普通用词,含义广,指人们日常生活和工作中所从事的有目的的体力或脑力劳动。
  • task: 通常指分派给的任务,也指自愿的工作,但往往是艰巨或令人厌烦的工作。
  • job: 多用于口语,侧重指受雇用的,以谋生为目的工作,不论有无技术,也不管是零工或散工。

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