take
[tek]
vt. 拿, , 抓, 带领, 获, 座, 接受, 吃, , , 乘, 需, 花费

vi. 吃掉棋, 抓住, 起, 依获

n. 拿, , , 奏效

[] 消禁运



take
taken, took
[ noun ]

1. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

<noun.possession>
the average return was about 5%

2. the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

1. carry out

<verb.social>
take action
take steps
take vengeance

2. require (time or space)

<verb.possession> occupy use up
It took three hours to get to work this morning
This event occupied a very short time

3. take somebody somewhere

<verb.motion> conduct direct guide lead
We lead him to our chief
can you take me to the main entrance?
He conducted us to the palace

4. get into one's hands, take physically

<verb.contact> get hold of
Take a cookie!
Can you take this bag, please

5. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

<verb.change> acquire adopt assume take on
His voice took on a sad tone
The story took a new turn
he adopted an air of superiority
She assumed strange manners
The gods assume human or animal form in these fables

6. interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression

<verb.cognition> read
I read this address as a satire
How should I take this message?
You can't take credit for this!

7. take something or somebody with oneself somewhere

<verb.motion> bring convey
Bring me the box from the other room
Take these letters to the boss
This brings me to the main point

8. take into one's possession

<verb.possession>
We are taking an orphan from Romania
I'll take three salmon steaks

9. travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route

<verb.motion>
He takes the bus to work
She takes Route 1 to Newark

10. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives

<verb.cognition> choose pick out select
Take any one of these cards
Choose a good husband for your daughter
She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her

11. receive willingly something given or offered

<verb.possession> accept have
The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter
I won't have this dog in my house!
Please accept my present

12. assume, as of positions or roles

<verb.social> fill occupy
She took the job as director of development
he occupies the position of manager
the young prince will soon occupy the throne

13. take into consideration for exemplifying purposes

<verb.cognition> consider deal look at
Take the case of China
Consider the following case

14. require as useful, just, or proper

<verb.stative> ask call for demand involve necessitate need postulate require
It takes nerve to do what she did
success usually requires hard work
This job asks a lot of patience and skill
This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent

15. experience or feel or submit to

<verb.perception>
Take a test
Take the plunge

16. make a film or photograph of something

<verb.communication> film shoot
take a scene
shoot a movie

17. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

<verb.change> remove take away withdraw
remove a threat
remove a wrapper
Remove the dirty dishes from the table
take the gun from your pocket
This machine withdraws heat from the environment

18. serve oneself to, or consume regularly

<verb.consumption> consume have ingest take in
Have another bowl of chicken soup!
I don't take sugar in my coffee

19. accept or undergo, often unwillingly

<verb.cognition> submit
We took a pay cut

20. make use of or accept for some purpose

<verb.possession> accept
take a risk
take an opportunity

21. take by force

<verb.possession>
Hitler took the Baltic Republics
The army took the fort on the hill

22. occupy or take on

<verb.motion> assume strike take up
He assumes the lotus position
She took her seat on the stage
We took our seats in the orchestra
She took up her position behind the tree
strike a pose

23. admit into a group or community

<verb.possession> accept admit take on
accept students for graduate study
We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member

24. ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial

<verb.change>
take a pulse
A reading was taken of the earth's tremors

25. be a student of a certain subject

<verb.cognition> learn read study
She is reading for the bar exam

26. take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

<verb.communication> claim exact
the accident claimed three lives
The hard work took its toll on her

27. head into a specified direction

<verb.motion> make
The escaped convict took to the hills
We made for the mountains

28. point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards

<verb.competition> aim direct take aim train
Please don't aim at your little brother!
He trained his gun on the burglar
Don't train your camera on the women
Take a swipe at one's opponent

29. be seized or affected in a specified way

<verb.change>
take sick
be taken drunk

30. have with oneself; have on one's person

<verb.stative> carry pack
She always takes an umbrella
I always carry money
She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains

31. engage for service under a term of contract

<verb.possession> charter engage hire lease rent
We took an apartment on a quiet street
Let's rent a car
Shall we take a guide in Rome?

32. receive or obtain regularly

<verb.possession> subscribe subscribe to
We take the Times every day

33. buy, select

<verb.possession>
I'll take a pound of that sausage

34. to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort

<verb.possession>
take shelter from the storm

35. have sex with; archaic use

<verb.contact> have
He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable

36. lay claim to; as of an idea

<verb.communication> claim
She took credit for the whole idea

37. be designed to hold or take

<verb.stative> accept
This surface will not take the dye

38. be capable of holding or containing

<verb.stative> contain hold
This box won't take all the items
The flask holds one gallon

39. develop a habit

<verb.social>
He took to visiting bars

40. proceed along in a vehicle

<verb.motion> drive
We drive the turnpike to work

41. obtain by winning

<verb.competition>
Winner takes all
He took first prize

42. be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

<verb.body> contract get
He got AIDS
She came down with pneumonia
She took a chill

Take \Take\ (t[=a]k), obs. p. p. of {Take}.
Taken. --Chaucer.


Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took} (t[oo^]k); p. p. {Taken}
(t[=a]k'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to
Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain
origin.]
1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the
hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or
possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to
convey. Hence, specifically:
(a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get
the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection
to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make
prisoner; as, to take an army, a city, or a ship;
also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack;
to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the
like.

This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii.
27.

Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
--Pope.

They that come abroad after these showers are
commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon.

There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.

Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
--Prov. vi.
25.

Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
that he had no patience. --Wake.

I know not why, but there was a something in
those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
which took me more than all the outshining
loveliness of her companions. --Moore.
(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.

Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
son. And Jonathan was taken. --1 Sam. xiv.
42.

The violence of storming is the course which God
is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
sinners. --Hammond.
(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat; it
takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by
car.

This man always takes time . . . before he
passes his judgments. --I. Watts.
(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
picture; as, to take a picture of a person.

Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
--Dryden.
(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]

The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
forcible motive to a good life, because taken
from this consideration of the most lasting
happiness and misery. --Tillotson.
(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit
to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to;
to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest,
revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a
resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a
following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as,
to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
(i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
over; as, he took the book to the bindery; he took a
dictionary with him.

He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
--Chaucer.
(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
to take the breath from one; to take two from four.

2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
(a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
refuse or reject; to admit.

Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer. --Num. xxxv.
31.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore. --1 Tim. v.
10.
(b) To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to
partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to;
to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will
take an affront from no man.
(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to
dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought;
to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret;
to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as,
to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
motive; to take men for spies.

You take me right. --Bacon.

Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
else but the science love of God and our
neighbor. --Wake.

[He] took that for virtue and affection which
was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.

You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
--Tate.
(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept;
to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with;
-- used in general senses; as, to take a form or
shape.

I take thee at thy word. --Rowe.

Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
Not take the mold. --Dryden.

3. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to
take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he
took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs.
exc. Slang or Dial.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air},
etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc.

{To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.

{To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey.

{To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities.

{To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
of bishops. ``By your own law, I take your life away.''
--Dryden.

{To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.

{To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
solicitous. ``Doth God take care for oxen?'' --1 Cor. ix.
9.

{To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care
for; to superintend or oversee.

{To take down}.
(a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
pride, or the proud. ``I never attempted to be
impudent yet, that I was not taken down.''
--Goldsmith.
(b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
(c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
house or a scaffold.
(d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
words at the time he utters them.

{To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and
{Fire}.

{To take ground to the right} or {To take ground to the left}
(Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move,
as troops, to the right or left.

{To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be
encouraged.

{To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. ``Take heed what
doom against yourself you give.'' --Dryden.

{To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
ways.

{To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on.

{To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse.

{To take in}.
(a) To inclose; to fence.
(b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
(c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
or furl; as, to take in sail.
(d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
[Colloq.]
(e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
water.
(f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]

For now Troy's broad-wayed town
He shall take in. --Chapman.
(g) To receive into the mind or understanding. ``Some
bright genius can take in a long train of
propositions.'' --I. Watts.
(h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
newspaper; to take. [Eng.]

{To take in hand}. See under {Hand}.

{To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. ``Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.''
--Ex. xx. 7.

{To take issue}. See under {Issue}.

{To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2.

{To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it
regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.

{To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular
attention.

{To take notice of}. See under {Notice}.

{To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
manner.

{To take on}, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
on a character or responsibility.

{To take one's own course}, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
the measures of one's own choice.

{To take order for}. See under {Order}.

{To take order with}, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
--Bacon.

{To take orders}.
(a) To receive directions or commands.
(b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
{Order}, n., 10.

{To take out}.
(a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
(b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
(c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.

{To take up}.
(a) To lift; to raise. --Hood.
(b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
amount; to take up money at the bank.
(c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix.
1.
(d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to
replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
(Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.
(e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take
up the time; to take up a great deal of room.
(f) To take permanently. ``Arnobius asserts that men of
the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the
Christian religion.'' --Addison.
(g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief;
to take up vagabonds.
(h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]

The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
--Bacon.
(i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.

One of his relations took him up roundly.
--L'Estrange.
(k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
continuous succession.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale. --Addison.
(l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or
manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
to take up current opinions. ``They take up our old
trade of conquering.'' --Dryden.
(m) To comprise; to include. ``The noble poem of Palemon
and Arcite . . . takes up seven years.'' --Dryden.
(n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of
assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. --Ps.
xxvii. 10.
(o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take
up a contribution. ``Take up commodities upon our
bills.'' --Shak.
(p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
(q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as,
to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make
tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack
thread in sewing.
(r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak.

{To take up arms}. Same as {To take arms}, above.

{To take upon one's self}.
(a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to
assert that the fact is capable of proof.
(b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed
to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon
one's self a punishment.

{To take up the gauntlet}. See under {Gauntlet}.


Take \Take\, v. i.
1. To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or
intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was
inoculated, but the virus did not take. --Shak.

When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
--Bacon.

In impressions from mind to mind, the impression
taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any
manifest effect. --Bacon.

2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed.

Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake,
And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
--Addison.

3. To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's
self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox,
being hard pressed, took to the hedge.

4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his
face does not take well.

{To take after}.
(a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes
after a good pattern.
(b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.

{To take in with}, to resort to. [Obs.] --Bacon.

{To take on}, to be violently affected; to express grief or
pain in a violent manner.

{To take to}.
(a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become
attached to; as, to take to evil practices. ``If he
does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great
friendship with him.'' --Walpole.
(b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. ``Men of
learning, who take to business, discharge it generally
with greater honesty than men of the world.''
--Addison.

{To take up}.
(a) To stop. [Obs.] ``Sinners at last take up and settle
in a contempt of religion.'' --Tillotson.
(b) To reform. [Obs.] --Locke.

{To take up with}.
(a) To be contended to receive; to receive without
opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain
fare. ``In affairs which may have an extensive
influence on our future happiness, we should not take
up with probabilities.'' --I. Watts.
(b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.

{To take with}, to please. --Bacon.


Take \Take\, n.
1. That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish
captured at one haul or catch.

2. (Print.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one
time.