takes
柯林斯词典
- USED WITH NOUNS DESCRIBING ACTIONS
1. V-T You can use take followed by a noun to talk about an action or event, when it would also be possible to use the verb that is related to that noun. For example, you can say "she took a shower" instead of "she showered." 后接名词描述动作或事件
She was too tired to take a shower. 她累得不想淋浴了。
Betty took a photograph of us. 贝蒂给我们拍了一张照片。
2. V-T In ordinary spoken or written English, people use take with a range of nouns instead of using a more specific verb. For example, people often say "he took control" or "she took a positive attitude" instead of "he assumed control" or "she adopted a positive attitude." 与许多名词连用，代替更具体的动词
The Patriotic Front took power after a three-month civil war. 爱国阵线经过3个月的内战后夺取了政权。
I felt it was important for women to join and take a leading role. 我感觉妇女参与并担任领导角色很重要。
V-T
1. V-T If you take something, you reach out for it and hold it. 拿
Here, let me take your coat. 来，我帮你拿大衣。
Colette took her by the shoulders and shook her. 科利特抓住她的双肩，摇晃着她。
2. V-T If you take something with you when you go somewhere, you carry it or have it with you. 随身带着
Mark often took his books to Bess's house to study. 马克经常带着书去贝丝家学习。
You should take your passport with you when changing money. 你换汇时应该带着你的护照。
3. V-T If a person, vehicle, or path takes someone somewhere, they transport or lead them there. 运送; 带领
She took me to a Mexican restaurant. 她带我去了一家墨西哥餐馆。
4. V-T If something such as a job or interest takes you to a place, it is the reason for you going there. (工作或兴趣等) 使某人去
He was a poor student from Madras whose genius took him to Stanford. 他是个来自马德拉斯的穷学生，他的才华使他考上了斯坦福。
5. V-T If you take something such as your problems or your business to someone, you go to that person when you have problems you want to discuss or things you want to buy. 请教 (问题); 洽谈 (生意)
You need to take your problems to a trained counsellor. 你需要向一位训练有素的顾问请教你的问题。
6. V-T If one thing takes another to a particular level, condition, or state, it causes it to reach that level or condition. 使达到 (某种水平或状态)
A combination of talent, hard work and good looks have taken her to the top. 天赋、勤奋和美貌的组合使她成了佼佼者。
7. V-T If you take something from a place, you remove it from there. 拿走
He took a handkerchief from his pocket and lightly wiped his mouth. 他从口袋里拿出一块手帕，轻轻地擦了擦嘴。
8. V-T If you take something from someone who owns it, you steal it or go away with it without their permission. 偷走; 擅自拿走
He has taken my money, and I have no chance of getting it back. 他偷了我的钱，我不可能把它要回来了。
9. V-T If an army or political party takes something or someone, they win them from their enemy or opponent. 夺取
A Serb army unit took the town. 一支塞尔维亚部队夺取了这个镇。
10. V-T If you take one number or amount from another, you subtract it or deduct it. 减去
Take off the price of the house, that's another hundred thousand. 减去房价，又是10万。
11. V-T If you cannot take something difficult, painful, or annoying, you cannot tolerate it without becoming upset, ill, or angry. 忍受[no passive, usu with brd-neg]
Don't ever ask me to look after those kids again. I just can't take it!
不要再叫我照看那些孩子们了。我简直无法忍受！
12. V-T If you take something such as damage or loss, you suffer it, especially in war or in a battle. (尤指在战争中) 遭受
They have taken heavy casualties. 他们遭受了惨重的伤亡。
13. V-T If something takes a certain amount of time, that amount of time is needed in order to do it. 花费 (时间)[no passive]
Since the roads are very bad, the trip took us a long time. 由于道路很差，这次旅程花费了我们很长时间。
I had heard an appeal could take years. 我已听说一项诉讼可能要花费好几年时间。
The sauce takes 25 minutes to prepare and cook. 从准备到烹制成这种调味汁需要25分钟。
It takes 15 minutes to convert the plane into a car by removing the wings and the tail. 拆除机翼和机尾，把那架飞机改成汽车需要15分钟的时间。
14. V-T If something takes a particular quality or thing, that quality or thing is needed in order to do it. 需要 (某种品质或事物)[no passive]
At one time, walking across the room took all her strength. 曾经有段时间，穿过这个房间得用尽她全部的力气。
It takes courage to say what you think. 说出你的想法需要勇气。
15. V-T If you take something that is given or offered to you, you agree to accept it. 接受
When I took the job I thought I could change the system, but it's hard. 当我接受这份工作时我以为我能改变这种体制，但太难了。
16. V-T If you take a feeling such as pleasure, pride, or delight in a particular thing or activity, it gives you that feeling. 感到
They take great pride in their heritage. 他们为自己的传统感到十分自豪。
17. V-T If you take a prize or medal, you win it. 赢得
"Poison" took first prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. 《毒药》在1991年的圣丹斯电影节上赢得一等奖。
18. V-T If you take the blame, responsibility, or credit for something, you agree to accept it. 承担
His brother Raoul did it, but Leonel took the blame and kept his mouth shut. 莱昂内尔的兄弟拉乌尔做了这件事，但莱昂内尔承担了责任而且对此绝口不提。
19. V-T If you take patients or clients, you accept them as your patients or clients. 接纳
Some universities would be forced to take more students than they wanted. 有些大学将被迫接纳比他们想要的更多的学生。
20. V-T If you take a telephone call, you speak to someone who is telephoning you. 接听 (电话)
Douglas telephoned Catherine at her office. She refused to take his calls. 道格拉斯把电话打到凯瑟琳的办公室。她拒绝接听他的电话。
21. V-T If you take something in a particular way, you react in the way mentioned to a situation or to someone's beliefs or behaviour. (以某种方式) 看待
Unfortunately, no one took my opinion seriously. 不幸的是，没有人严肃地看待我的意见。
22. V-T You use take when you are discussing or explaining a particular question, in order to introduce an example or to say how the question is being considered. 举出… (为例)[usu imper]
There's confusion and resentment, and it's almost never expressed out in the open. Take this office, for example. 混乱和怨恨是存在的，而几乎从没人公开表露出来过。就以这个办公室为例。
23. V-T If you take someone's meaning or point, you understand and accept what they are saying. 理解
I had made it as plain as I could so that he could not fail to take my meaning. 我已经尽我所能地说明白，所以他不会不理解我的意思。
24. V-T If you take someone for something, you believe wrongly that they are that thing. 把…错当成
She had taken him for a journalist. 她把他错当成记者了。
25. V-T If you take a road or route, you choose to travel along it. 选择走 (某条路)
From the community college take Old Mill Road to the outskirts of town. 从社区学院出发，走老磨坊路到达市郊。
26. V-T If you take a car, train, bus, or plane, you use it to go from one place to another. 搭乘
It's the other end of town so we should take the car. 它在城镇的那头，因此我们应该乘车去。
27. V-T If you take a subject or course at school or college, you choose to study it. 选修
Students are allowed to take European history and American history. 学生被允许选修欧洲史和美国史。
28. V-T If you take a test or examination, you do it in order to show your knowledge or ability. 参加 (考试)
She took her driving test yesterday. 她昨天参加了驾照考试。
29. V-T If someone takes drugs, pills, or other medicines, they take them into their body, for example, by swallowing them. 服用
She's been taking sleeping pills. 她一直在服用安眠药。
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V-T If you take a note or a letter, you write down something you want to remember or the words that someone says. 写下
She sat expressionless, carefully taking notes. 她面无表情地坐着，仔细地记着笔记。
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V-T If you take a measurement, you find out what it is by measuring. 测量
By drilling, geologists can take measurements at various depths. 通过钻孔，地质学家可以在不同深度测量。
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V-T If a place or container takes a particular amount or number, there is enough space for that amount or number. 容纳[no passive]
The place could just about take 2,000 people. 这个地方只能容纳大约两千人。
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V-T If you take a particular size in shoes or clothes, that size fits you. 穿 (某个尺寸的鞋子或衣服)
"What size do you take?"—"I take a size 7."
“你穿多少号？”—“我穿7号。”
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N-SING You can use take to refer to the amount of money that a business such as a shop or theatre gets from selling its goods or tickets during a particular period. 营业收入[美国英语] [商业]
It added another $11.8 million to the take, for a grand total of $43 million. 它又增加了1180万美元的营业收入，总计为4300万美元。
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V-T If a shop, restaurant, theatre, or other business takes a certain amount of money, they get that amount from people buying goods or services. 赚得[英国英语] [商业]
They plan to take £1.6 billion. 他们计划要收入16亿美元。
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V-T If you are taken by someone, you are cheated or deceived by them. 欺骗[非正式]
They got taken by a scam artist. 他们被一个假冒的艺术家骗了。
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N-COUNT A take is a short piece of action which is filmed in one continuous process for a movie. (电影中一次连续拍摄的) 镜头
She couldn't get it right – she never knew the lines and we had to do several takes. 她就是做不好–她一直不熟悉台词，我们只好一个镜头拍好几次。
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N-SING Someone's take on a particular situation or fact is their attitude to it or their interpretation of it. 态度; 解释
What's your take on the new government? Do you think it can work?
你对新政府持什么态度？你认为它能行吗？
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CONVENTION If you say to someone "take it or leave it," you are telling them that they can accept something or not accept it, but that you are not prepared to discuss any other alternatives. 要么接受，要么走开
A 72-hour week, 12 hours a day, six days a week, take it or leave it. 1周72小时，每天12小时，每周6天，要么接受，要么走开。
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PHRASE If someone takes an insult or attack lying down, they accept it without protesting. 心甘情愿地忍受
The government is not taking such criticism lying down. 政府不会心甘情愿地忍受这种批评。
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PHRASE If something takes a lot out of you or takes it out of you, it requires a lot of energy or effort and makes you feel very tired and weak afterward. 使某人筋疲力尽
He looked tired, as if the argument had taken a lot out of him. 他看上去累了，似乎这场辩论已使他筋疲力尽。
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PHRASE If someone tells you to take five or to take ten, they are telling you to have a five or ten minute break from what you are doing. 休息5分钟; 休息10分钟[美国英语] [非正式]
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PHRASE Someone who is on the take is receiving illegal income such as bribes. 受贿[非正式]
I can also name cops who are on the take. 我也能说出受贿警察的名字。
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to be taken aback→see aback
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to take up arms→see arm
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to take the cake→see cake
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to take your hat off to someone→see hat
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to be taken for a ride→see ride
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to take someone by surprise→see surprise
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take my word for it→see word
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take /teɪk/ (taking,took,taken,takes)
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